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

[Sudhir Khanger]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/06/14 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 20:01 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you have RPMFusions's VB or the one from Oracle's repo? I found
>>> RPMFusion's build problematic as they provide modules through kmod.
>>> Akmod
>>> can automatically build modules for you.
>>>
>>> So I have switched to Oracle's version. It comes
>>> with /etc/init.d/vboxdrv
>>> that you could run manually to build the modules using following
>>> command.
>>>
>>> /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
>>
>>
>> I have the RPMfusion one. I'll remove it and try the Oracle one, thanks.
>>
>> poc
>>
>
> AFAICS, the RpmFusion package uses akmod not DKMS to build the kernel
> module(s).
>
> With kmod you have two options either install kmod-VirtualBox which has
> pre-built kernel modules in which case you'll have to wait for the package
> to get updated to get the modules for the updated kernel; or install
> akmod-VirtualBox which should build the module at boot, of course the build
> can fail and require a patch... etc.
>
> --
> Ahmad Samir
>
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I haven't had any problems with the Oracle supplied VirtualBox for a
few months. The one from RPMFusion kept lagging behind; yum would
upgrade to latest kernel irrespective of if VirtualBox's dependencies
are met or not.

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Sudhir Khanger.
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