Virtual Box 6.0.6 Fails to upgrade Oracle Linux 6

[DonC]

When I try and upgrade a Linux 6( xxx) to use VB 6.0.6, I get the following errors:

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.0.6 Guest Additions for Linux........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 6.0.6 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
vboxadd-service.sh: Stopping VirtualBox Guest Addition service.
You may need to restart your guest system to finish removing guest drivers.
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel 
modules.  This may take a while.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run
VirtualBox Guest Additions:   /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>
VirtualBox Guest Additions: or
VirtualBox Guest Additions:   /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the modules for kernel 
4.1.12-124.26.7.el6uek.x86_64.
SELinux:  Could not downgrade policy file /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24, searching for an older version.
SELinux:  Could not open policy file <= /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24:  No such file or directory
libsemanage.semanage_reload_policy: load_policy returned error code 2.
SELinux:  Could not downgrade policy file /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24, searching for an older version.
SELinux:  Could not open policy file <= /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24:  No such file or directory
libsemanage.semanage_reload_policy: load_policy returned error code 2.
/usr/sbin/semanage: Could not commit semanage transaction
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until 
the system is restarted
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules.  This may take a while.
To build modules for other installed kernels, run
  /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>
or
  /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
Running kernel modules will not be replaced until the system is restarted
vboxadd-service.sh: Starting VirtualBox Guest Addition service.
Press Return to close this window...

What can I do to fix this. During reboot, I get the same error.

[DonC]

Machine log file

[DonC]

Machine log file

[DonC]

Not sure why it attached the log twice, but they are most likely the same.

[DonC]

The Oracle Linux version is 4.1.12-124.26.7.el6uek.x86_64

[Socratis]

You need to disable SecureBoot, or to sign the kernel modules yourself, Oracle doesn't provide signed kernels.

[DonC]

Okay - turning selinux to permissive solved the errors with selinux. However, now at each boot, I get this notice during boot...

Bringing up loopback interface:  ^[[60G[^[[0;32m  OK  ^[[0;39m]^M
Bringing up interface eth0:
Determining IP information for eth0... done.
^[[60G[^[[0;32m  OK  ^[[0;39m]^M
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel
modules.  This may take a while.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run
VirtualBox Guest Additions:   /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>
VirtualBox Guest Additions: or
VirtualBox Guest Additions:   /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until
the system is restarted
Starting auditd: ^[[60G[^[[0;32m  OK  ^[[0;39m]^M

Does this mean that the modules are rebuilding and not available?

[Socratis]

No, that means that there was no error during the installation/compilation of the kernel modules, you don't see any errors, right?

[DonC]

Other than seeing this building going on at each boot, it seems to be working okay. Why is it that it "looks like" the modules are being built every time the machine is booted?

Is secure boot part of VirtualBox or are you talking about the machine BIOS?

[Michael Thayer]

Secure boot is a feature of the UEFI BIOS (if you will forgive the sloppy terminology use). In this case it refers to the host as we do not currently support it in the guest.

You should not get that rebuild notification on every boot. To investigate, please run

sh -x /sbin/rcvboxadd start

as root, capture the output and attach it to this ticket.

[DonC]

Output for sh -x /sbin/rcvboxadd start

[DonC]

Output for sh -x /sbin/rcvboxadd start is attached as output.txt

[DonC]

I just noticed that I said that the guest was Oracle Linux 9 - That is incorrect! DUH

The guest OS is Oracle Linux 6 (4.1.12-124.26.7.el6uek.x86_64). I am unsure how to change the title of the bug. Sorry - must have been very sleepy.

[DonC]

Still the same behavior with VB 6.0.10 with the current Linux 6 release.

[Frank Batschulat (Oracle)]

I do not see this behavior complained about with both 6.0.14/18 and 6.1.2/4 on standard OL6 installation.

Have you enabled SELinux manually?

Is that problem still happening? If yes, please provide information on how to reproduce this problem and re-open the bug.