Trouble installing VBoxGuestAdditions.iso in Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.6
 

I am using WIndows 8.1 laptop with VitualBox installed on it. I installed OEL 6.6 version from an iso from the internet and it went fine. Now I am trying to install the VBoxGuestAdditions and I am having issues.

I posted the issue on the virtualbox forums and they told it might be a regular linux issue and not virtualbox issue.

When I am trying to install the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso, it fails & I see some errors in the /var/log/vboxadd-install.log


My log file looks like as in the image logs.png and my uname -r and rpm -qa | grep -i kernel looks like this(rpmqa_uname.png)

I could not copy-paste from the VM, hence the screenshots.

I have the following questions:
- I see kernel-uek-3.8.13-55.1.8.el6uek.x86_64 and kernel-uek-3.8.13-44.1.1.el6uek.x86_64, what is the difference?
- I also see the headers(kernel-headers-2.6*) , does this mean this header does not match the installed kernels?

What am I missing now? Do I have multiple kernel versions? If so, do I need to uninstall some? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Hey VJY

Hmmm... there are entire websites dedicated to the difference. Start with this one

You can have multiple kernels installed. The only important question is, which one did you boot from?
The answer to that is in your grub configuration file.

For reference, you're booted on 3.8.13-55.1.8 which requires some security patching, if you're currently worried about that stuff.

If you look at the bottom of the error message you will see a reference to abrt. That's a RHEL/Cent/Solaris, et al bug reporting tool. If you type into the command line

abrt-cli list

You'll see a blurb scroll through the terminal. In it one (or more) directories will be listed, you'll find more information on the failure in the relevant directory.

Thanks, I will check it out and post the results.

Thanks for the links.

I looked at the grub.conf and found that vmlinuz-3.8.13-68.el6uek.x86_64 is the default(default=0), but when I type uname -r, I get "3.8.13-55.1.8.el6uek.x86_64".

I will install the security patches once I am done with these issues.

I tried abrt-cli list, but when I type that command, I do not get anything, I just get the prompt.

I still get the same errors when trying to install the virtualbox guest.

Anything else that I can try out(I did look for similar error messages in the internet, but they were not helpful).

Thanks.

Did you reboot after installing the new kernel?

I'd like to apologize, what I initially thought was a reference to the bug detector being called was actually just the new bug detector being installed with the kernel. Sent you on a wild goose chase, mia culpa. There are a couple other things you can try but given the possibility you have a new kernel installed but haven't rebooted over to it, I'd suggest if you haven't done that already, you do it now before we go any further.

Thanks. I thought I restarted it, but looks like I did not. Once I restarted, uname -r displayed the updated kernel and I was able to install the guest additions.

But I got the error message saying that the Windows drivers were not found and did not get installed. I could not go back, the scroll does not still work in the virtualbox.

But thanks again for your help.

Try shift+PageUp to scroll a terminal with no scrollbar.

As for the help, No problem, working on other peoples headaches makes a nice break form working on my own.
;)

Thanks that helped. But I would like to see the scroll bar and I will continue to look if I can get that on(just personal preference).

Thanks again.