Bug 305583 – app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.1.4 init script is broken

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ghislain Bourgeois 2010-02-17 15:27:24 UTC]

The init script installed by app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.1.4 tries to load module vboxadd and to run the binary vboxadd-service. They do not exist. They should be vboxguest and vboxguest-service.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge "=app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.1.4"
2. /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-additions start
3. ...

Actual Results:  
Service fails to start with error vboxguest-service: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
Service should start correcty

[Comment 1 Ghislain Bourgeois 2010-02-17 15:40:27 UTC]

Created attachment 220051 [details]
New init script

This is the corrected init script. It is the full script since the patch would be about the same size.

[Comment 2 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2010-03-10 09:59:01 UTC]

Thanks for posting a working version!

[Comment 3 ukjohnd 2010-04-03 13:59:32 UTC]

Confirm new init script works for 3.1.6

[Comment 4 Jiří Moravec 2010-04-18 16:51:40 UTC]

I just sent email to both maintainers. This bug was spotted at least at 7th December 2009 and now is end of April 2010. Grhh.
I hope that my email didn't fall into their spam folder.

[Comment 5 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) 2010-05-11 18:52:53 UTC]

I have just applied this fix to:
app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.1.4
app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.1.6
app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.1.8-r1