VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#3698 closed defect (fixed)

System crash during upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 => Stop all VMs before upgrade

Reported by: Daniel van Eeden Owned by:
Component: installer Version: VirtualBox 2.2.0
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: Linux

Description

Upgrade from virutualbox-2.1 to virtualbox-2.2 on Ubuntu 8.1 amd64 using apt. This will work if VirtualBox is not running. If VirtualBox is running during the upgrade the system will crash.

Suggested solution 1:

Stop installer if VirtualBox is running and throw an error.

Suggested solution 2:

Stop VirtualBox before installing.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Summary: System crash during upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2System crash during upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 => Stop all VMs before upgrade

You are right, VirtualBox versions 2.1.0 until 2.1.4 will crash when they are uninstalled as long as they are running. The reason is that these releases do not prevent unloading the vboxnetflt module while a VM is running. This is fixed in release 2.2.0, so when you upgrade VBox the next time, the upgrade should work fine.

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 13 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Recent VirtualBox versions don't allow to upgrade as long as there is a VBoxSVC daemon running.

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