[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] I'm having a problem with

[Joseph Rawson]

On Friday 29 August 2008 12:16:15 you wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:45:48AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote:
> > linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 .  Recently the new linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 has
> > made its way into testing.  I have been having a hard time getting this
> > kernel to boot in virtualbox.  I'm not really sure if the problem is with
>
> Yes, this is a known problem. Upstream is looking into it.
>
> > virtualbox or with the kernel.  I'm posting this email here in hopes that
> > somebody here will know where the problem resides, and help direct me on
> > who
>
> Unfortunately no, neither we do, not upstream does. Actually there is a
> discussion on the kernel mailing list about exactly this going on atm too.
>
> > to talk to in order to get it fixed.  Another reason for posting here, is
> > that I have screenshots, and log files that might help determine what's
> > going on.  If the problem is the kernel, I'm hoping that your experience
> > with reading the virtualbox logs will help narrow down the problem, and
> > help me make a better report of this to the kernel maintainers.
> > ...
>
> Upstream is reading here as well, so sending more info is always a good
> idea.
>
I was waiting for your CC to make it to the mailing list before responding.  
I'm ready to help test things out.  I'm not much on actually digging into 
kernel code, or virtualbox code, for that matter.  I have git cloned the 
kernel, and already have a working  copy of the virtualbox svn repository.  
I'm not really familiar with git, yet.

Let me know what I can do to help out.  This problem has be at a bit of a 
standstill, so I'm not able to progress anyway, at least not without 
reverting to an older kernel, and redoing a couple of packages to tell the 
depends to revert to the older kernel also.  I'd rather not do that if y'all 
are already aware of the problem, and I'd like to help if possible.



> From what I gathered so far, it appears to be a timing problem.
>
> Michael



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Thanks:
Joseph Rawson
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