Hi Michael,
On 10/05/2015 03:38 AM, Michael Thayer wrote:
> Hello zGreenfelder,
>
> On 05.10.2015 01:16, zGreenfelder wrote:
>> I'm running a centos system, saw an update for virtualbox, loaded it,
>> now I'm getting this and unable to start any of my VMs:
>>
>> [root@nemesis ~]# virtualbox
>> WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
>> available for the current kernel (2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64)
>> or it failed to
>> load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by
>>
>> sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup
>>
>> You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
>> No protocol specified
>> Qt WARNING: VirtualBox: cannot connect to X server :1.0
>> [root@nemesis ~]# whereis rcvboxdrv
>> rcvboxdrv:
>> [root@nemesis ~]# /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup
>> -bash: /sbin/rcvboxdrv: No such file or directory
>> [root@nemesis ~]#
>>
>>
>> ... so... what's supposed to have the rcvboxdrv program/script/whatever?
>> why did this move to /sbin instead of /etc/init.d? anyone have some
>> pointers?
>
> I will start with the easiest bit: in these days of systemd, not all
> systems have /etc/init.d. If you do then the old script should still
> land there (can you check that it is still present on your system?), but
> we decided to adopt SUSEs convention (much older than systemd by the
> way) of /sbin/rc* in addition, for the others.
>
> Could you please give more details of your system and what you did to
> upgrade VirtualBox and any additional information that seems useful,
> like messages displayed while you were upgrading? I just did a quick
> test install on CentOS 6 and everything worked as expected. So it would
> help if I understood why your system is different. If you installed
> from the RPM package, the output of "rpm -ql VirtualBox-5.0" would be
> good to see too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
I'm also seeing this same behavior and it appears to be an issue with
the update (vs. install) process in 5.0.6.
After performing a local 'yum update' on a CentOS 6 system (5.0.4 ->
5.0.6), I ran into this same problem, so I did some digging:
# rpm -ql VirtualBox-5.0 > vbox-5.0.6
# yum downgrade ./VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.4_102546_el6-1.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -ql VirtualBox-5.0 > vbox-5.0.4
# sdiff -b -s -W -w128 vbox-5.0.4 vbox-5.0.6
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxautostart-service <
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxballoonctrl-service <
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxdrv <
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxweb-service <
/sbin/rcvboxdrv <
/usr/bin/VBoxSDL <
/usr/bin/vboxsdl <
>
/usr/lib/virtualbox/postinst-common.sh
>
/usr/lib/virtualbox/prerm-common.sh
>
/usr/lib/virtualbox/routines.sh
>
/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxautostart-service.sh
>
/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxballoonctrl-service.sh
>
/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh
>
/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxweb-service.sh
/usr/share/doc/VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.4_102546_el6 |
/usr/share/doc/VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.6_103037_el6
/usr/share/doc/VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.4_102546_el6/LICENSE |
/usr/share/doc/VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.6_103037_el6/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.4_102546_el6/UserManual.pdf |
/usr/share/doc/VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.6_103037_el6/UserManual.pdf
/usr/share/doc/VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.4_102546_el6/VirtualBox.chm |
/usr/share/doc/VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.6_103037_el6/VirtualBox.chm
/usr/src/vboxhost-5.0.4 |
/usr/src/vboxhost-5.0.6
It appears that the update process fails to create the scripts in
'/etc/rc.d/init.d/vbox*', so none of this gets started at boot. Of
course, you won't notice this until the system takes a reboot.
If you fully remove VBox as with:
# yum erase VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.4_102546_el6-1.x86_64'
and then:
# yum install ./VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.6_103037_el6-1.x86_64.rpm
as a clean install (i.e., not an update), then the scripts are created:
# ls /etc/rc.d/init.d/vbox*
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxautostart-service /etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxdrv
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxballoonctrl-service /etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxweb-service
and VBox drivers and services start up as they normally should during
boot.
-Thom
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