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

[Louis King Jr]

Thanks Michael. Perry explained this was a different issue.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hello Louis,
>
> I don't remember precisely, but in my case I don't think it was caused by
> the X server.  I think that this is a systemd bug where systemd's internal
> state gets out of sync, and that it can be caused by lots of different
> things (the first report I saw of it was over a year ago<1>, so probably
> long before that X server version appeared).
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
> <1> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/2584
>
> On 01.10.2015 19:11, Louis King Jr wrote:
>
>> 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 <mailto: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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