On Sunday 10 May 2009 20:56:47 Frank Mehnert wrote:
> David,
>
> On Sunday 10 May 2009, David Baron wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 May 2009 11:46:55 Frank Mehnert wrote:
> > > David,
> > >
> > > On Saturday 09 May 2009, David Baron wrote:
> > > > Trying to build the vboxdrv.ko for an rt-patched kernel. For some
> > > > reason, the script is trying to (or thinks it sees) the unpatched
> > > > version.
> > > >
> > > > m-a built modules do not have this problem.
> > >
> > > which VBox package did you install on which Linux distribution?
> > > Wild guess: If you are talking about the Debian OSE version please,
> > > please ask at the Debian mailing list.
> >
> > Debian Lenny version from Sun's site.
> > However, could be a Debian problem so will CC to there as well.
>
> Did you patch the kernel yourself? How did you install the kernel?
> In general, /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build should be a symlink to
> the kernel sources of your currently running kernel. Don't create
> this link yourself but install the proper kernel-headers package
> which creates this link.

and this was indeed the problem. Since the sources were sources I patched, I 
did set the proper symlink manually and the the thing plays.

How did I get the wrong symlink there? There have been problems of this nature 
in versions of kernel-package, I believe, which have presumably been fixed 
(?).


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