[vbox-dev] VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.4.iso problems.

[Louis King Jr]

according to PerryG, it is caused by the pre-release X.Org server in Fedora
23.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hello George,
>
> Adding the list back on CC.  I can't tell you anything more than what I
> posted to the list and to the Ubuntu bug report: this seems to be a
> systemd bug, and executing "systemctl daemon-reexec" seems to work
> around it, or at least did when I had the same issue.  You probably want
> to be talking to Leonard and the systemd people about it though, not us.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
> On 01.10.2015 17:20, George R Goffe wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > I sent the enclosed to the vbox mailinglist but got no responses. I
> > happened to see your post so I'm sending you a copy. Can you help?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > George...
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to install the VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.4.iso onto my Fedora 23
> > system.
> >
> > It's not going well. The Fedora 23 system is in a virtual machine on
> > VBox 5.0.4. I started with 1 cpu and 1G of memory. The virtual 23 system
> > ran out of memory... I went to 2G and got the same result. Now, the
> > virtual 23 system is at 4G and 2 cpus and appears to be stuck. Possibly
> > in systemd-tty-ask. Memory usage is increasing slightly but otherwise,
> > the install seems to be consuming NO other resources (i.e., compute
> time).
> >
> > I'm at a loss as to what to do at this point in time.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > George...
>
>
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