[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#607169: Bug#607169: /usr/share/virtualbox/VBox.sh: Save machine state with immutable images result in corrupt session

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El Dimecres 15 Desembre 2010 19:15:42 Corey Wright va escriure:

> by the way:
>
> 1. backports package bugs should be reported to the debian-backports
> mailing list [1][2][3][4]

I didn't notice the bpo version when I filed the bug, sorry.

> 2. your backports version of virtualbox-ose is outdated as
> 3.2.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1 is the latest [5]

I forgot that I installed VirtualBox from backports, it solved an issue 
I had but right now don't remember what was. As I downloaded and 
installed the .deb packages manually, I stuck with this now outdated 
version.

> 3. that version probably won't fix your bug based on the previously
> mentioned [6] upstream bug report [7]

I manually downloaded the current backports version (for a quick fix) 
and found that this version never destroys the differencing image. So, 
although the original .vdi file seems unaltered, after a off-on cycle 
it preserved the HD changes from the previous session with no obvious 
way to roll back the VM to the immutable state, maybe deleting the 
differencing image will do but I didn't tested it yet.

> 4. you can email the backports package uploader [8][9] asking if he
> would upload a newer version (like 3.2.10-dfsg-1 as it is already in
> squeeze/testing and might fix your problem)

Noted. Maybe I'll try the manual download-and-install from Lenny or 
Squeeze. I know it's not the way, but I managed to mess up things so 
far that is worth trying before downgrading to the old 1.6 stable 
version if things go awfully wrong.

> 5. in this case you probably don't need to email him as he is one of
> the comaintainers of the virtualbox-ose debian package [10] and
> should see this bug report thread

Hi :-)

> 5. i presume you haven't pinned lenny-backports to get automatic
> upgrades for backports [11]

Worse than that, I did not put backports on apt source list.

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