<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi jonathan i did this on my macbook in virtualbox<div><br></div><div>it sounds to me like the upgrade isnt upgrading the module properly</div><div>I would look at a emerge removal with a purge then go and check it has removed the module and other items </div><div>them re-emerge it - its sounds like the old module is lurking.......</div><div><br></div><div>wayne</div><div><br><div><div>On 14 Oct 2009, at 15:39, jonath wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Wayne,<br><br>What software do you use for making your virtual boxes? I'm always<br>having problems with virtual machines. I use to use VMWare Workstation<br>(I think it was), which kind of worked okay (mostly), but it was a bit<br>of behemoth. I then tried out VirtualBox, when has been okay up until<br>recently (until I upgraded from 1.6 to 3.0.something). Now I get some<br>weird error telling me I need to run '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start'. Of<br>course, that file doesn't exist. Downgrading doesn't seem to work<br>either. Joy, joy, joy. This is all on a Gentoo system.<br><br>jonathan<br><br>2009/10/14 Wayne Ward <<a href="mailto:wayne@lancastercomputers.co.uk">wayne@lancastercomputers.co.uk</a>>:<br><blockquote type="cite">Mananged to get gentoo and arch and debian all in virtual boxes last night<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">i was talking to gareth on sykpe through the installs and tested out some<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">screen sharing etc which was awsome<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gareth managed to get the new ubuntu installed and shared his screen to give<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">me a preview!!!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">i think the gentoo install took around hour and a half and the arch was a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">hour - the debian install was around 20 minutes but that has no real hard<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">work to do!!! all these installs were just to a basic command prompt so you<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">build on top of that - the gentoo install i built everything required into<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the kernel so no modules!! and cut all the rubbish out of the kernel - and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the install was very basic using minimal packages and no use flags - so this<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">could be shown at a meeting no problem although im thinking to start this of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">we should start from easier installs first im thinking<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Base system installs<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">debian install<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">arch install<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gentoo install<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Build on top of the base systems<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">debain<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">arch<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gentoo<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So one week so the debain and arch if people can handle this or start slowly<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">with the debian??...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I was thinking for next months meeting although i have to say i cant make<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the first wednesday of the month and wanted to arrange the meeting for the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">next week if everybody is okay with this.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gareth how did you get on with the gento 10.0 install???<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Regards,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Wayne ward<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">07957448652<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Lancaster Computers<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.lancastercomputers.co.uk">www.lancastercomputers.co.uk</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:wayne@lancastercomputers.co.uk">wayne@lancastercomputers.co.uk</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Computers - Laptops - Servers - Web Services<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Lancaster mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Lancaster@mailman.lug.org.uk">Lancaster@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lancaster">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lancaster</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Lancaster mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lancaster@mailman.lug.org.uk">Lancaster@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lancaster<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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