[vbox-dev] Guest additions in SVN after r53112 fail

Frank Mehnert frank.mehnert at oracle.com
Thu Nov 6 10:50:01 GMT 2014


Hi Perry,

On Wednesday 05 November 2014 08:46:44 Perry Halbert wrote:
> While testing the guest additions on a Linux guest it fails to work.
> 
> They build without error and install without error but on reboot there
> is an error that vboxguest ( vboxclient ) could not start. Doing a
> modprobe or even /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup failed with reference to
> check dmesg and dmesg shows the following error.
> 
> vboxguest: Unknown symbol VBoxGuest_RTStrCopyEx (err 0)

thank you for this heads-up! This was actually visible on our testboxes
as well but did not get attention due to other problems :-)

Should be fixed in r53241.

Frank
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