Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

[Jeremy Hendricks]

I mean that as: just reinstall Virtualbox as a first troubleshooting step.
If that works, great. If it doesn’t, then that can be marked off the list
as something that was tried.

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 8:21 AM Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:

> On 27/11/2021 13:03, Jeremy Hendricks wrote:
> > I’d recommend emerging Virtualbox again. It should just work with emerge
> > @module-rebuild unless Virtualbox isn’t compatible with the newer
> > version of kernel.
>
> HOW !?!?
>
> The problem is that they are already installed, so any attempt to emerge
> them fails with "nothing to emerge".
>
> Unless I do an "emerge -C", but that of course will then break the old
> kernel (assuming I might want to go back to it ...)
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 8:00 AM Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk
> > <mailto:antlists@××××××××××××.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 27/11/2021 12:41, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >      > On Saturday, 27 November 2021 12:29:10 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> >      >> Simple problem, after a kernel upgrade, virtualbox no longer
> >     works. This
> >      >> is to be expected, of course, BUT ...
> >      >>
> >      >> How do I fix it !!!
> >      >>
> >      >> What I always did on my old system was to re-emerge the modules.
> >      >>
> >      >> The docu says "emerge @module-rebuild".
> >      >>
> >      >> Both of these terminate with "nothing to rebuild".
> >      >>
> >      >> What else can I do?
> >      >
> >      > You could try 'emerge @x11-module-rebuild'.
> >      >
> >     Same result - nothing to rebuild :-(
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Wol
> >
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