Wow, did I screw up - tax day and need your help, fast !!!

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 15 19:57:03 UTC 2008


On 04/15/2008 12:30 PM, David C. Uhrig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Bazooka Joe <fastfish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Taxes are due today and I have waited until the last minute to do
>>   them.  (i know)
>>
>>   I have virtualbox running xp that I use for turbotax.
>>
>>   Well, last weekend procrastinating doing my taxes I decided to upgrade
>>   to Hardy.  Today I find out that my VirtualBox doesn't work any more.
>>
>>   I run sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup and get errors
>>
>>   Any ideas? Short of installing gusty on another comp (which I would
>>   have to get started on that now).
>>
>>   --help
>>
>>
>>   make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-15-generic/build
>>   SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 modules
[snip]
> 
> Joe,
> 
>     You might check to see if you've gotten a kernel upgrade recently.
> If so, you need to reinstall the VirtualBox package so that it has the
> right drivers for your new kernel, or, try running an old one. Since
> you appear to be running the Hardy Beta (2.6.24-15 kernel), you can
> grab the Gutsy package from VirtualBox's site and install it. I've had
> to do this with each new kernel release.
> 
> -David C. Uhrig
> 

That's likely the problem. Hardy is 2.6.24-16.






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