Solved: Re: virtualbox-error -1908

[Alfred JILKA]

Alfred JILKA schrieb:
> Doug Stewart schrieb:
>   
>> Alfred JILKA wrote:
>>     
>>> Before you go ahead and think: one more lazy guy, RTFM, I'd like to 
>>> tell you: I did.
>>> And even some more pages on the net.
>>> My system: AMD 64, 2GB Ram, free diskspace to play around: 180GB
>>> Virtualbox is Version 1.5.6_OSE (from adept_manager installed)
>>>
>>> Suggestions were:
>>> reinstall the *generic driver. -> no go
>>> modify the vboxdrv, restart the system. -> no go
>>> run vboxdrv with option "setup". This one was removed, as stated 
>>> inside the script. -> no joy
>>> Tried to look into the logs. There are none...
>>> Looked into dmesg. No errors, even no mention of vboxdrv or similar.
>>>
>>> Downloaded 1.6.0 and ran the file, but it stopped with the really 
>>> intelligent errormessage:
>>> (After telling me, that the archive is ok)
>>> "there were errors encountered which might prevent VB from running. 
>>> Please correct them"
>>> At least to that effect.
>>>
>>> Any more ideas ?
>>> TIA, Alfred
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I had this problem and in my case it was a mismatch between the Kernel 
>> and virtualbox
>> I had Kernel 2.6.24-17 and virtualbox wanted kernel 2.6.24-16
>>
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> Ah yesss. Sorry to answer so late. This one is certainly one cause, 
> which has been corrected. My kernel is now 2.6.24.17 as is my vb. Still 
> the same. However now it may make sense to try the uninstall/reinstall 
> game. I'll post my results, as soon as I tried it.
> Thanks for the helpfull input, Alf
>
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>   
Finally! A complete uninstall/reinstall brought up the next little 
problem: Error -1909 Device not accessible. The solution was easy: edit 
/etc/group and add my usename to the virtualbox group.
After a logoff/logon I was back in business, until I hit error -102, 
drive not accessible (or to that effect)
So I dumped the whole machine, which was created with wrong kernel 
versions. After I had created the new vm I worked as expected.
Hope this story will help someone else too, Alfred
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