VirtualBox

Opened 13 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#9332 closed defect (obsolete)

clipboard support broken - OEL 5.6, OEL 6.1

Reported by: Peter Asboeck Owned by:
Component: clipboard Version: VirtualBox 4.1.0
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Windows

Description (last modified by Frank Mehnert)

VirtualBox 4.1.0 installed on Windows 7 64bit host.

Guests: Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 -> clipboard support broken
        Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1 -> clipboard support broken
        Ubuntu 11.4 -> clipboard support OK (copy/paste between guest/host - OK)
        Fedora 14 (Laughlin) -> clipboard support OK (copy/paste between guest/host - OK)

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vboxadd-install.log (157.3 KB ) - added by Peter Asboeck 13 years ago.

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Change History (8)

comment:1 by Michael Thayer, 13 years ago

Could you please include a log file as requested for at least one of the broken guests, preferably OEL6.1 as I am downloading that now? You also didn't mention whether the guests were 32 or 64bit, which at least with OEL5.6 is likely to be relevant as I believe they use a different kernel by default for the 64bit version.

If you are interested in helping to debug this, you could do the following on one of the affected guests: stop the process "VBoxClient --clipboard", and restart it (as your user on the VM, not as root!) exporting the environment variables "VBOX_RELEASE_LOG_DEST=file=<your home directory on the guest>/clipboard.log" and "VBOX_RELEASE_LOG=all.e.l.l2.l3.f". This should log all information about attempts to transfer clipboard data between guest and host (from the guest's point of view) to the file clipboard.log, which you can then upload here.

Thanks.

in reply to:  1 comment:2 by Peter Asboeck, 13 years ago

Details about the installed guest OS - Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1

$ lsb_release
LSB Version:	:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
[itsme@vm-oel-1 ~]$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:	:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID:	OracleServer
Description:	Oracle Linux Server release 6.1
Release:	6.1
Codename:	n/a
$ uname -a
Linux vm-oel-1 2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 25 17:46:45 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ rpm -qa | grep uek
kernel-uek-headers-2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek.x86_64
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek.x86_64
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek.noarch
kernel-uek-2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek.x86_64

You can get the kernel from http://public-yum.oracle.com/ ...

by Peter Asboeck, 13 years ago

Attachment: vboxadd-install.log added

comment:3 by Peter Asboeck, 13 years ago

Sorry, forgot to check if VBoxClient is running ... VBoxClient doesn't start with "normal" user ... only with root ... then Clipboard Support (copy/paste) is ok.

[itsme@vm-oel-1 Desktop]$ uptime
 11:04:49 up 0 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.22, 0.06, 0.02
[itsme@vm-oel-1 Desktop]$ ps -ef | grep VBoxClient
itsme     2334  2314  0 11:04 pts/0    00:00:00 grep VBoxClient
[itsme@vm-oel-1 Desktop]$ VBoxClient --clipboard
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
[itsme@vm-oel-1 Desktop]$ ping -c 3 www.yahoo.com
PING eu-fp3.wa1.b.yahoo.com (87.248.122.122) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.ch1.yahoo.com (87.248.122.122): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=62.2 ms
64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.ch1.yahoo.com (87.248.122.122): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=81.1 ms
64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.ch1.yahoo.com (87.248.122.122): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=85.3 ms

--- eu-fp3.wa1.b.yahoo.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2087ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 62.297/76.244/85.326/10.016 ms
[itsme@vm-oel-1 Desktop]$ su - root
Password: 
[root@vm-oel-1 ~]# cd /media/VBOX*
[root@vm-oel-1 VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009]# ls
32Bit        runasroot.sh                    VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe
64Bit        VBoxLinuxAdditions.run          VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe
AUTORUN.INF  VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg
autorun.sh   VBoxWindowsAdditions-amd64.exe
[root@vm-oel-1 VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009]# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.1.0 Guest Additions for Linux.........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 4.1.0 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules           [  OK  ]
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules       [  OK  ]
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
Building the main Guest Additions module                   [  OK  ]
Building the shared folder support module                  [  OK  ]
Building the OpenGL support module                         [FAILED]
(Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong)
Installing the Window System drivers
Installing X.Org Server 1.7 modules                        [  OK  ]
Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions    [  OK  ]
You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart
the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions.

Installing graphics libraries and desktop services componen[  OK  ]
[root@vm-oel-1 VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009]# ps -ef | grep VBoxClient
root      6541  2347  0 11:06 pts/0    00:00:00 grep VBoxClient
[root@vm-oel-1 VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009]# exit
logout
[itsme@vm-oel-1 Desktop]$ VBoxClient --clipboard
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
[itsme@vm-oel-1 Desktop]$ su - root
Password: 
[root@vm-oel-1 ~]# VBoxClient --clipboard
[root@vm-oel-1 ~]# echo $?
0
[root@vm-oel-1 ~]# ps -ef | grep VBoxClient
root      6575     1  0 11:07 ?        00:00:00 VBoxClient --clipboard
root      6579  6552  0 11:07 pts/0    00:00:00 grep VBoxClient
[root@vm-oel-1 ~]# 

comment:4 by Peter Asboeck, 13 years ago

[itsme@vm-oel-1 log]$ VBoxClient-all
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
[itsme@vm-oel-1 log]$ su - root
Password: 
[root@vm-oel-1 ~]# VBoxClient-all
[root@vm-oel-1 ~]# echo $?
0
[root@vm-oel-1 ~]# ps -ef | grep VBoxClient
root      3438     1  0 11:58 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --clipboard
root      3448     1  0 11:58 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --display
root      3453     1  0 11:58 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --seamless
root      3460  3407  0 11:59 pts/0    00:00:00 grep VBoxClient
[root@vm-oel-1 ~]# 

comment:5 by Michael Thayer, 13 years ago

In this case "connect to the kernel service" means to open /dev/vboxuser, nothing network-related. Perhaps not the best way of expressing it in the error message... so it sounds like a permissions problem. Any idea what may be going wrong? Permissions are normally set in /etc/udev/rules.d/60-vboxadd.rules or /etc/init.d/vboxadd.

comment:6 by Peter Asboeck, 13 years ago

I FOUND THE WORKAROUND TO GET EVERYTHING RUNNING (including #9307) ... make -i !!

This steps "repair" some installation problems (diff is FAILED/OK on OpenGL !)

[root@vm-oel-2 ~]# cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009
[root@vm-oel-2 VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009]# export MAKE='/usr/bin/gmake -i'
[root@vm-oel-2 VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009]# ls
32Bit        runasroot.sh                    VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe
64Bit        VBoxLinuxAdditions.run          VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe
AUTORUN.INF  VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg
autorun.sh   VBoxWindowsAdditions-amd64.exe
[root@vm-oel-2 VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009]# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.1.0 Guest Additions for Linux.........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 4.1.0 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules           [  OK  ]
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules       [  OK  ]
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
Building the main Guest Additions module                   [  OK  ]
Building the shared folder support module                  [  OK  ]
Building the OpenGL support module                         [  OK  ]
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions              [  OK  ]
You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used

Installing the Window System drivers
Installing X.Org Server 1.7 modules                        [  OK  ]
Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions    [  OK  ]
You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart
the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions.

Installing graphics libraries and desktop services componen[  OK  ]
[root@vm-oel-2 VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009]# /etc/init.d/vboxadd start
Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions                    [  OK  ]
[root@vm-oel-2 VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009]# ps -ef | grep -i vbox
root      6438     1  0 13:07 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/VBoxService
root      6554  2286  0 13:08 pts/0    00:00:00 grep -i vbox
[root@vm-oel-2 VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009]# /usr/bin/VBoxClient-all
[root@vm-oel-2 VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.0_73009]# 

REBOOT and services are starting ... clipboard working / mount of vboxsf working (#9307)

comment:7 by Frank Mehnert, 10 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed
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