id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	guest	host
4556	VirtualBox services not starting, consuming CPU cycles with no output or action	Novometa		"Ahoy! We're hoping to switch over to VirtualBox from VMWare.

We're running 3.0.2-49928 on kernel 2.6.29-4 (Novometa distribution).

Installation seems fine; kernel modules build and load.

Basically, services don't start. Turning on tracing in the main Vbox.sh script we can see it's attempting to exec /opt/VirtualBox/Virtualbox.

For some reason, this binary (and other such as VboxManage, VBoxHeadless and of course VBoxSVC) sit there consuming CPU cycles indefinitely; one cannot even run a version query.

Nothing gets syslogged, and there are no kernel messages. No IP packets observed in or out.

 1050 pts/1    RN    10:50 /opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox -v

It continues to burn CPU time without doing anything I can see.

There's nothing in /tmp and no ~/.VirtualBox created either.

If kernel modules are unloaded, the behavior is the same (with the exception of a the expected complaint) – it still sits there consuming CPU cycles without doing anything I can observe.

My suspicion is that it's related to IPC?"	defect	closed	host support	VirtualBox 3.0.2	obsolete			other	Linux