VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#3846 closed defect (fixed)

OpenSolaris error when installing Guest Additions

Reported by: David Sain Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version: VirtualBox 2.2.0
Keywords: devfsadm vboxguest driver fail attach Cc:
Guest type: Solaris Host type: Windows

Description

Error during package installation. No apparent problem at this time. I don't know what specifically failed to attached to the kernel, so marked it as minor.

Host: Windows XP x64 edition on AMD Athlon X2 FX-60 dual core.

david@opensolaris:~# pkgadd -d /media/VBOXADDITIONS_2.2.0_45846/VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg ... ## Executing postinstall script. Uncompressing files... Configuring VirtualBox guest kernel module... devfsadm: driver failed to attach: vboxguest Warning: Driver (vboxguest) successfully added to system but failed to attach Usage: kill [-l] [-n signum] [-s signame] job ...

Or:job ...

killjob ... [job ... optionsjob ... ] -l [arg ...] ## Aborting due to attach failure. devfsadm: driver failed to attach: vboxguest Creating links... Configuring Xorg... Configuring client... Configuring service... devfsadm: driver failed to attach: vboxguest Done.

Attachments (3)

VBoxAdditionsError.txt (13.8 KB ) - added by David Sain 15 years ago.
OpenSolaris.xml (3.6 KB ) - added by David Sain 15 years ago.
Guest Machine file
messages (81.8 KB ) - added by David Sain 15 years ago.
/var/adm/messages

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Change History (6)

by David Sain, 15 years ago

Attachment: VBoxAdditionsError.txt added

by David Sain, 15 years ago

Attachment: OpenSolaris.xml added

Guest Machine file

comment:1 by David Sain, 15 years ago

Apologies - Guest is new install of OpenSolaris 0805.

comment:2 by Ramshankar Venkataraman, 15 years ago

Please attach output of tail -300 /var/adm/messages

by David Sain, 15 years ago

Attachment: messages added

/var/adm/messages

comment:3 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

Component: otherguest additions
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

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