kernel-devel problem (broken link, no PAE)

[Steven Stern]

On 05/30/2010 02:16 PM, Brian Mury wrote:
> I am trying to build the VirtualBox kernel module. It fails with this
> error:
> 
> Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current
> Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  Stop.
> 
> In /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE there is a "build" symlink
> that links to /usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE - but that
> directory does not exist!
> 
> What *does* exist is /usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686 (note that
> the .PAE extension is missing).
> 
> If I make a symlink from /usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE
> to /usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686, the module will build, but
> the kernel will not load it because it has the wrong version number.
>>From /var/log/messages:
> 
> May 30 11:55:39 BrianF13 kernel: vboxdrv: version magic
> '2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686 SMP mod_unload 686 ' should be
> '2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE SMP mod_unload 686 '
> 
> Should there be a PAE version of kernel-devel? I can't find a package
> for it.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
VirtualBox builds OK on my system.

$ rpm -qa |grep kernel
kernel-PAE-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686
kernel-PAE-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686
kernel-headers-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686
abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.1.0-1.fc13.i686

Try 'yum install kernel-PAE-devel'.

-- 
-- Steve