Opened 12 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#11164 closed enhancement (obsolete)
Error message needs to be dramatically improved when installing extpack with VBoxManage
| Reported by: | Ken Sharp | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | installer | Version: | VirtualBox 4.2.4 |
| Keywords: | extpack | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
$ VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.4-81684.vbox-extpack 0%... Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE VBoxManage: error: Failed to install "/tmp/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.4-81684.vbox-extpack" VBoxManage: error: The installer failed with exit code 127: Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current controlling terminal for the process (`/dev/tty'): No such device or address VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ExtPackManager, interface IExtPackManager VBoxManage: error: Context: "int handleExtPack(HandlerArg*)" at line 1112 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
This is meaningless. The problem: it needs to be ran as root.
The application really should have the intelligence to check for root access and report a more meaningful message than the above.
Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.