Gentoo Websites Logo
Go to: Gentoo Home Documentation Forums Lists Bugs Planet Store Wiki Get Gentoo!

Bug 280738

Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.2 fails to start virtualbox-guest-additions
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Akinori Hattori <hattya>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) <jokey>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: brad, gdelfino, patrick, swapon, toffanin.mauro
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: fix

Description Akinori Hattori gentoo-dev 2009-08-08 11:27:28 UTC
# /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-additions start
 * Starting VirtualBox guest additions ...
 *      Loading kernel modules and creating devices
 *      Starting the vboxadd system service
 * Failed to start VirtualBox guest additions
Comment 1 Akinori Hattori gentoo-dev 2009-08-08 11:29:11 UTC
Created attachment 200564 [details, diff]
fix
Comment 2 Alex Barker 2009-09-14 20:39:42 UTC
Patched worked well thanks.  This needs to be bumped to 3.0.6
Comment 3 Gustavo Delfino 2009-10-01 20:14:37 UTC
The patch worked well for me too.
Comment 4 MT 2009-10-20 15:26:12 UTC
the patch works well also for app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.8
Comment 5 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2009-11-03 01:53:30 UTC
patch added to virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.10[1]

Thanks

[1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/jokey
Comment 6 boludiko 2009-11-10 06:32:34 UTC
i don't know how patch the 3.0.10 version, i installed this version with emerge, if i installed this patch i can resize the window size¿
Comment 7 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2009-11-10 20:18:46 UTC
@patrick

can you please add the updated initd file to the tree?
(currently is on jokey's overlay[1])

thanks

[1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/jokey/browser/trunk/app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions/files/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.initd
Comment 8 VinyJones 2009-11-11 19:08:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> i don't know how patch the 3.0.10 version, i installed this version with
> emerge, if i installed this patch i can resize the window size¿
> 
you have to patch this file "/etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-additions"
Comment 9 boludiko 2009-11-11 21:36:24 UTC
ok, i patch the virtual-guest-additions and works, but how can i  reconfigure the screen? the screen dont auto-resize, and dont detect resolutions.
Comment 10 Brad Laue 2010-01-26 15:46:10 UTC
This can be closed as it's no longer in the tree