Struggling with VBoxLinuxAdditions

czezz · 05-27-2020, 10:46 AM

Hi, Im struggling to install VBoxLinuxAdditions on Slackware 14.2.
I run as a root (under X window) sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run and it ends like this:

Code:

# sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.1.38 Guest Additions for Linux...........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 5.1.38 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
vboxadd.sh: Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions.
Failed to set up service vboxadd, please check the log file
/var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log for details.

cat /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log

Code:

install_init_script: error: unknown init type
addrunlevel: error: unknown init type
install_init_script: error: unknown init type
addrunlevel: error: unknown init type
vboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
vboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
vboxadd.sh: failed: modprobe vboxguest failed.
install_init_script: error: unknown init type
addrunlevel: error: unknown init type

Then by looking in /var/log/vboxadd-install.log (full log at: https://pastebin.com/FGndg2ne)
I see this:

Code:

make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /lib/modules/4.4.217/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.1 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.1 -j1 modules
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (                \
echo >&2;                                                       \
echo >&2 "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";           \
echo >&2 "         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo >&2 "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";      \
echo >&2 ;                                                      \
/bin/false)

But thats not true:

Code:

# find / -type f  \( -name "autoconf.h" -o -name "auto.conf" \)
/usr/src/linux-4.4.217/include/config/auto.conf
/usr/src/linux-4.4.217/include/generated/autoconf.h

And in any case running 'make oldconfig && make prepare' does not help at all.
There is a few more MAKE errors at the end of the log, but I think first I should solve the one on the top of the log.
Does anyone experienced issue like this?

pan64 · 05-27-2020, 11:09 AM

that is not an error message (at the beginning), but a script which can print that message. But actually that error message was not printed.
The real error I see is at line 61.

glorsplitz · 05-27-2020, 07:19 PM

What I've been doing, which has always worked
with guest up, guest window Devices/Optical Drives/ click on VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

this puts the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso in /dev/sr0

on the guest as root mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/tmp
sh /mnt/tmp/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Seems to be just the one 'liunx' additions.

Has this all worked for you before, is there something new you're doing, can you describe your host and guest systems?
Is guest a complete system install, was anything not installed the additions may be looking for?

aikempshall · 05-28-2020, 01:12 AM

If a new kernel comes along on 14.2 running as a guest. The following works for me -

use upgradepkg against Pat's kernel packages
create new initrd
create new grub.cfg
run virtualbox-addons,SlackBuild from slackbuilds.org then upgradepkg --reinstall
run virtualbox-kernel-addons.SlackBuild from slackbuilds.org then upgradepkg --reinstall
reboot

Then I see something like this

Quote:

$ ls -lrt /var/log/packages/virtualbox* kernel*217*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3481895 Mar 29 20:10 kernel-source-4.4.217-noarch-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 257805 Mar 29 20:10 kernel-modules-4.4.217-x86_64-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25099 Mar 29 20:10 kernel-headers-4.4.217-x86-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1022 Mar 29 20:10 kernel-generic-4.4.217-x86_64-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17291 Mar 29 20:35 /var/log/packages/virtualbox-addons-5.0.40-x86_64-1_SBo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1250 Mar 29 20:35 /var/log/packages/virtualbox-kernel-addons-5.0.40_4.4.217-x86_64-1_SBo

I only go down the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run route for -current and then after having made a calculated guess as to which version of GuestAdditions I should be using.

Hope this helps. Good luck.