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

[Michael Thayer]

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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Werkstrasse 24                     VirtualBox engineering
71384 Weinstadt, Germany           mailto:michael.thayer at oracle.com

ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG
Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München
Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603

Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V.
Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande
Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697
Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher