Guest Additions: Not installed on Debian 3.1 -> fixed as of 19 May 2011 (trunk only)

[Technologov]

host: Win 7 x64 + VBox 4.0.6 (and 4.0.0)

On Debian-3.1 guests Xorg and mouse drivers are not installed correctly.

-Technologov, 24.4.2011.

[Frank Mehnert]

It would be a bit more helpful if you could give a hint about the actual problem (for instance /var/log/vboxadd-install.log).

[Technologov]

In addition, I have sent a private Debian 3.1 ISO link to Michael Thayer.

-Technologov

[Michael Thayer]

Alexey, here is a patch against trunk (should work against with 4.0 as well though) which should fix the issue. You can apply it to the /etc/init.d/vboxadd script on the guest and reboot (or restart the script).

Index: src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer/vboxadd.sh
===================================================================
--- src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer/vboxadd.sh	(revision 71780)
+++ src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer/vboxadd.sh	(working copy)
@@ -273,7 +273,9 @@
 start()
 {
     begin "Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions ";
-    which udevd >/dev/null 2>&1 || no_udev=1
+    uname -r | grep -q '^2\.6' 2>/dev/null &&
+        ps -A -o comm | grep -q '/*udevd$' 2>/dev/null ||
+        no_udev=1
     running_vboxguest || {
         rm -f $dev || {
             fail "Cannot remove $dev"