From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OPQZK-0007GO-LH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:40:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FDEBE0AE7; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E861E0AE7 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75AEF7BCAF; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:39:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:39:31 -0400 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: waltdnes@waltdnes.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to expunge virtualbox Message-ID: <20100617213931.71f96806@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20100618010345.GB4357@waltdnes.org> References: <20100618010345.GB4357@waltdnes.org> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7f094f52-3a9c-4716-a0f8-34e7016b1df0 X-Archives-Hash: 50945151381211ecb7d5718d71962cb7 On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:03:45 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: > Just recently switched to a backup machine and I notice the > following. Some time ago, I had tried Virtualbox, and uninstalled > it. I still get the following as the final 2 lines of the bootup > process... > > * Starting VirtualBox kernel module ... > * modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why > > - I've tried "dmesg | grep -i box", and it shows nothing. > - emerge -pv --depclean | grep -i box > only hits on "busybox", "dosbox", and "sandbox" > - There is no mention of vboxdrv > in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 or in /var/lib/portage/world or > in /etc/conf.d/local.start > > Any more ideas? Have you looked in /etc/mod*.conf and /etc/mod*.d/* ??