Problem with ELRepo kernels on Rocky Linux 8

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Hi,

I’m running Rocky Linux 8 with KDE from EPEL on my laptop.

I just tried to install a more recent kernel because I need some cgroups features for a Kubernetes lab. So I grabbed kernel-lt from ELRepo.

I rebooted on that kernel and got the following error on startup:

Failed to start Linux kernel module init script.

I gave the kernel-ml a spin and got exactly the same result.

I googled around a bit. Some folks thought that it might be related to Secure Boot, but that’s disabled on my laptop.

Which leaves me clueless. Any suggestions ?

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Is that the only message you see? Posting more lines before that one would help.

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That’s pretty much everything:

[kikinovak@dell-xps:~] $ journalctl -p err
-- Logs begin at Sun 2024-08-11 22:43:58 CEST, end at Sun 2024-08-11 22:45:08 CEST. --
août 11 22:44:00 dell-xps rtkit-daemon[849]: Failed to make ourselves RT: Operation not permitted
août 11 22:44:00 dell-xps systemd[1]: Failed to start Linux kernel module init script.
août 11 22:44:02 dell-xps bluetoothd[831]: src/adapter.c:reset_adv_monitors_complete() Failed to reset Adv Mo>
août 11 22:44:18 dell-xps rtkit-daemon[849]: Failed to make ourselves RT: Operation not permitted
août 11 22:44:18 dell-xps rtkit-daemon[849]: Failed to make ourselves RT: Operation not permitted
août 11 22:44:18 dell-xps rtkit-daemon[849]: Failed to make ourselves RT: Operation not permitted
août 11 22:44:18 dell-xps rtkit-daemon[849]: Failed to make ourselves RT: Operation not permitted
août 11 22:44:18 dell-xps rtkit-daemon[849]: Failed to make ourselves RT: Operation not permitted
août 11 22:44:18 dell-xps rtkit-daemon[849]: Failed to make ourselves RT: Operation not permitted
août 11 22:44:18 dell-xps rtkit-daemon[849]: Failed to make ourselves RT: Operation not permitted
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I think you could post messages of all priority levels prior and after the error. This may give some extra context to work with.

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Are you running VirtualBox? If yes, have you tried to rebuild/reinstall their kernel modules?

Reference: VirtualBox fails after kernel upgrade - virtualbox.org

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VirtualBox was the culprit indeed. Problem solved. Thanks very much !

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