423355 – app-emulation/virtualbox - remove `-f' from VBox_load_modules

Bug 423355 - app-emulation/virtualbox - remove `-f' from VBox_load_modules

Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox - remove `-f' from VBox_load_modules

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal minor (vote)
Assignee:	Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2012-06-24 16:43 UTC by dE
Modified:	2013-10-02 16:22 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description dE 2012-06-24 16:43:48 UTC

First, it's bad for security, secondly, in my setup, it fails to work -- 

modprobe -f vboxdrv
FATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv (/lib/modules/3.4.2-gentoo-r1/misc/vboxdrv.ko): Invalid module format

I guess it's cause MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is enabled.

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-24 07:36:44 UTC

Can you be a bit more precise please? What does run "modprobe -f vboxdrv" on your system?

Comment 2 dE 2012-07-26 14:29:59 UTC

A script called VBox_load_modules exists in app-emulation/virtualbox which loads all virtualbox modules.

By default this script uses the -f switch with modprobe to load modules, which does not work on my system.

Comment 3 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2013-10-02 16:22:15 UTC

I don't see that this file still exists on current in-tree virtualbox-versions.  I've also done recursive greps for any modprobe calls in bundled scripts and I find no problems.  Please re-open the bug if you find that there is still a problem somewhere.

Thanks!