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FS#27375 - [virtualbox-modules]

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by tim (sudokode) - Thursday, 01 December 2011, 05:51 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 01 December 2011, 07:04 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The virtualbox-modules package (now orphaned) depends on a package providing 'linux'. If you are using a package that provides any other kernel (e.g linux-ck), a package providing 'linux' is installed and the modules are placed in /lib/modules/extramodules-xxx-ARCH (which is hard-coded into the PKGBUILD). If on a different kernel, these modules cannot be loaded.

Additional info:
* linux-ck-3.1.3
* virtualbox-modules-4.1.6-2

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install an alternative kernel.
2. Reboot and exec the kernel.
3. Install virtualbox.
4. Optional: modprobe vboxdrv

Possible fix:
Remove the linux dependencies as they are redundant on a linux system and use something like 'uname -r' to check the kernel being used and the proper extramodules directory.
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Thursday, 01 December 2011, 07:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  you are using unsupported kernel. deal with it,like you deal with that kernel.

virtualbox-source provides virtualbox-modules and you can skip installing -modules by doing pacman -S virtualbox virtualbox-source

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