Failed to construct 'pcnet'/0! VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND (-102) - File not found.

[Brian J. Murrell]

I just upgraded from 2.04 to 2.06 on Ubuntu Intrepid. I tried to start a "Saved" (prior to upgrade) machine and the log reports:

00:00:39.815 PDM: Failed to construct 'pcnet'/0! VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND (-102) - File not found.
00:00:39.815 ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) aIID={e3c6d4a1-a935-47ca-b16d-f9e9c496e53e} aComponent={Console} aText={Unknown error creating VM.
00:00:39.815 VBox status code: -102 (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)} aWarning=false, preserve=false
00:00:39.825 Power up failed (vrc=VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND, hrc=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0X80004005))
00:00:43.848 VRDP: TCP server closed.

[Frank Mehnert]

Which packages did you use? The official packages from virtualbox.org?

[Brian J. Murrell]

Replying to frank:

Which packages did you use? The official packages from virtualbox.org?

Yessir, as always. :-)

[Frank Mehnert]

Please could you attach the VBox.log file for such a session?

[Brian J. Murrell]

Replying to frank:

Please could you attach the VBox.log file for such a session?

Most certainly. Done.

[Frank Mehnert]

Could it be that one of these files is not there?

• /home/brian/lustre/vbox-nic1.log -- perhaps directory does not exist?
• /home/brian/.VirtualBox/TFTP -- TFTP directory does not exist?
• /home/brian/.VirtualBox/TFTP/Windows XP on partition 2.pxe -- PXE file does not exist?

[Brian J. Murrell]

Replying to frank:

Could it be that one of these files is not there?

~sigh~ Yeah. :-(

• /home/brian/lustre/vbox-nic1.log -- perhaps directory does not exist?

Didn't have my Lustre filesystem mounted to which /home/brian/lustre is a symlink to.

• /home/brian/.VirtualBox/TFTP -- TFTP directory does not exist?
• /home/brian/.VirtualBox/TFTP/Windows XP on partition 2.pxe -- PXE file does not exist?

Not really sure what these are. They don't exist, but they don't seem to impede the VM from running.

To be clear, it's up and running now.

As an RFE, would it be possible in the future to have the error message in the log either/and/or the GUI say what file is -ENOENT? Maybe not so easy.

Thanx for all the help!

[Frank Mehnert]

Improved the error message. Fix will be included in next version. Closing.