[xubuntu-users] Virtual Box Lost

[Michael Comperchio]

On 05/17/2012 01:50 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
> On 05/17/2012 08:47 PM, Michael Comperchio wrote:
>> Ok, so I got fed up trying to get the NVIDIA drivers working again in 
>> *Oneiric Ocelot, so I ran the command line distro updater... 
>> marvelous, I've got X back. But I've lost VirtualBox!!!!!
>>
>> From the popup window....
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> *
>>
>> The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or 
>> there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the 
>> kernel module by executing
>>
>> '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
>>
>
> Please run this from terminal;
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
>
>>
>> as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install 
>> the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel 
>> changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> I am not really that knowledgeable about kernal stuff ... HELP!
>>
>
> Cheers,
> Pasi
> -- 
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>
>
I tried that! /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup doesn't exist... I tried 
removing, then installing, still no sunshine..
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Michael Comperchio

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