Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#1743 closed defect (fixed)
VBoxHeadless crashes with X server on Solaris (even in GNU screen). => fixed in next version
| Reported by: | cmihai@boreas.ro | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 1.6.2 |
| Keywords: | VBoxHeadless, XOrg, Solaris, SXCE | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
When X crashes it also takes down VirtualBox:
cthulhu% ./VBoxHeadless -s CentOS51 VirtualBox Headless Interface 1.6.2 (C) 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved
Listening on port 3389 X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
If I export DISPLAY to something else, VirtualBox lives happily through X crashes:
env DISPLAY=vboxftw /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless -s SomeMachine
Now I can crash X all I want, VBox stays up.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
comment:3 by , 16 years ago
This happens on linux too (Slackware 10.2), not just Solaris. VBoxHeadless doesnt seem to be able to run without a local head, which doesnt make any sense. Technically, VBoxHeadless shouldnt have any dependencies on X Server or Client. right?
At least the DISPLAY workaround works for me as well.
comment:5 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
| Summary: | VBoxHeadless crashes with X server on Solaris (even in GNU screen). → VBoxHeadless crashes with X server on Solaris (even in GNU screen). => fixed in next version |
This will be fixed in whatever version comes after 1.6.4.
This sounds like VBoxHeadless tries to set up clipboard sharing with the X server. Can't verify right now though.