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Old 05-13-2012, 04:36 AM   #1
Pale
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Problem installing virtualbox on sabayon 8, kernel 3.3.0


Hello, I have been trying to install virtualbox on sabayon 8, 3.3.0-sabayon.
I first attempted this installation by entropy, it was able to fetch
virtualbox-bin but fails to download the modules across many different mirrors.
It fails on more than 5 mirrors but this is what it looks like.
Code:
## Checksum does not match. Download attempt #1
>>    ## ( mirror #1 ) Downloading from: http://na.mirror.garr.it
>>    ## ( mirror #1 ) Error downloading from: http://na.mirror.garr.it - wrong checksum.
>>    ## ( mirror #2 ) Downloading from: http://cross-lfs.sabayonlinux.org
>>    ## ( mirror #2 ) Error downloading from: http://cross-lfs.sabayonlinux.org - not found.
>>    ## ( mirror #3 ) Downloading from: http://mirror.clarkson.edu
>>    ## ( mirror #3 ) Error downloading from: http://mirror.clarkson.edu - not found.
>>    ## ( mirror #4 ) Downloading from: rsync://mirror.umd.edu
>>    ## ( mirror #4 ) Error downloading from: rsync://mirror.umd.edu - wrong checksum.
>>    ## ( mirror #5 ) Downloading from: http://mirror.umd.edu
>>    ## ( mirror #5 ) Error downloading from: http://mirror.umd.edu - discarded download.
>>    ## Cannot properly fetch package! Quitting.
>>    ## An error occured. Action aborted.
>>  @@ Download incomplete
This lead me to downloading and installing the latest version off virtualbox.org.
However upon finishing installation and running the program I am unable to boot
into any operating system because I don't have the right kernel driver or module or something. When I run
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup I get:
Code:
 * Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...                                                                                                                                                                                              [ ok ]
 * Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...                                                                                                                                                                                 [ !! ]
 * Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS ...
 * Failed, trying without DKMS
 * Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules ...
 * Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong
/var/log/vbox-install.log
Code:
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /lib/modules/3.3.0-sabayon/build modules
Makefile:327: /usr/src/linux-3.3.0-sabayon/scripts/Kbuild.include: No such file or directory
Makefile:567: /usr/src/linux-3.3.0-sabayon/arch/x86/Makefile: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: /usr/src/linux-3.3.0-sabayon/scripts/gcc-goto.sh: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-3.3.0-sabayon/arch/x86/Makefile'.  Stop.
make: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2
Any help is appreciated. Thank you for your time.
 
Old 07-30-2012, 11:10 AM   #2
abhishekgit
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I got the exact same problem. However, you may refer this



http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...roblem-699114/
 
  


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