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

[Alessandro Suardi]

Perhaps one of these two (which are actually a common single issue),
 which recently caused trouble in both rawhide and F22 - and which
 I crashed into before the systemd daemon-reexec workaround was
 discovered and documented ?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229416
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224211

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Louis King Jr <inlieuoflou at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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