Can't mount shared folders with guest additions 4.3.10 => Fixed in SVN

[pcfens]

Linux machines running guest additions 4.3.10 give an error when trying to mount shared folders using the command:

sudo mount -t vboxsf /media/shared /shared_folder

The error showing up in syslog (multiple times) on the guest system is

Mar 27 15:07:33 saucy64 kernel: [   28.911001] sf_read_super_aux err=-71

I confirmed the behavior with packer built VMs running Ubuntu (12.04, 13.10, and 14.04 (daily build)). Building the same machines in VirtualBox 4.3.10 with guest additions 4.3.8 didn't have the error and performed as expected.

A VBox.log file from the Ubuntu 13.10 machine with the error is attached.

[justinlintz]

Confirmed this issue as well on VMS running Ubuntu 12.04, 10.04 with Host Type of OSX 10.9.2

[Explorer09]

Try this workaround:

sudo ln -s /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions \
/usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions

I don't know what happened to this new version of Guest Additions, but it seems that it missed a symlink during installation. This breaks the path of /sbin/mount.vboxsf so that the mount command fails.

[LastWord]

I confirm this issue with Kubuntu as my guest OS.

I upgraded from Guest Additions ver. 4.3.8 to 4.3.10 and it broke my shared folders.

I also confirm that workaround mentioned earlier worked for me.

[Michael Thayer]

I hope that I have fixed it so that a work-around is no longer needed. A test build is available here:

https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.11-93070.iso

[Michael Thayer]

Marked ticket #12889 a duplicate of this one.

[Socratis]

Confirmed as working with VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.11-93070.iso and guest Ubuntu 12.04.

[Robb]

Confirm problem as given in description with VirtualBox 4.3.10 r93012 on Mac 10.9.2 host with Ubuntu 12.04 guest.

Symlink workaround from Explorer09 works.

Using VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.11-93070.iso resolves the issue as well.

[kekeke]

VBoxGuestAdditiions_4.3.11-93070.iso resolved the problem for me as well - thanks for the fix.

[ScalaIsCool]

Had the same issue with Win7 host and saucy32 guest. Used the test case ISO link provided above and it resolved the issue. When will the new ISO be included in an official VirtualBox release?

[Frank Mehnert]

The new .iso will be part of the next maintenance release.

[eevenson]

Thanks for the test iso -- it works as a fix for me as well. Looking forward to the next maintenance release.

[chulkilee]

When can we get the next maintenance release? :(

[the-noob]

+1 for the maintenance release, sync folders is major feature and manually applying the workaround is not always straightforward

[MartinB3]

+1 please release a fix!

[kekeke]

Replying to michael:

I hope that I have fixed it so that a work-around is no longer needed. A test build is available here:

https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.11-93070.iso

Unfortunately, this link is no longer working. Any chance it can be restored?

[Michael Thayer]

For now it would probably be simplest if people just used the work-around from comment:2, which is exactly what the test build would do.

[W2PC]

Replying to michael:

For now it would probably be simplest if people just used the work-around from comment:2, which is exactly what the test build would do.

yeah if only we could automate this workaround in puppet so we did not have to ssh in and run the hack. Do we have a ETA on the maintenance release?

I do way to much vagrant/puppet to have to do this to each machine all day long.

[juriansluiman]

Can someone give an ETA for the next release? We are also using vagrant/ansible a lot and this bug is really annoying to hotfix it over and over again.

The list of builds is not up to date at the 4.3.x page but generally speaking there was a release every month or so. 4.3.10 was released on 2014-03-25 (so just over a month ago). Is it expected to have 4.3.11 released within a few days now? The patch has been applied in svn four weeks ago and I guess a lot of people have stumbled upon this issue :)

[blitz_danielsmith]

What is the ETA on 4.3.11?

[Frank Mehnert]

Fix is part of VBox 4.3.12.