Kernel 3.14.5-200.fc20.x86_64 won't boot: module problem

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jun 11 13:08:09 UTC 2014


On 06/11/14 20:43, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On trying to boot the above kernel, I get a "Failed to start Load Kernel
> Modules" error. This appears to be caused by missing vboxdrv modules
> (from VirtualBox). Booting an earlier kernel works fine.

Yes.  And mine have built just fine.

/usr/lib/modules/3.14.5-200.fc20.x86_64/extra/vboxdrv.ko
>
> Two comments:
>
> 1) I thought DKMS was supposed to rebuild the VBox modules for each new
> kernel automatically. This has happened in the past but seems to have
> failed now. Why would this be and how can I fix it?

Run dkms manually?


>
> 2) The error message was unhelpful as it didn't identify which modules
> failed. It took some searching to find what the problem was. Surely this
> could be done better. (In fact I'd argue that failing to load these
> modules shouldn't result in a failed boot, but I realize that's maybe
> harder to deal with).
>

I've not run into this problem. 

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