[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#796706: virtualbox-guest-x11: Has init script in runlevel S but no matching service file

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

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Hi Felipe,

thanks a lot for the patch!

>> % modinfo vboxvideo | grep alias alias:
>> pci:v000080EEd0000BEEFsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> 
>> This means the init script is unnecessary, as it will be
>> autoloaded by the kernel when the right device is present. I have
>> tested this works even on jessie.
>> 
>> Please remove it. Attached is an (untested) patch that
>> 
>> - removes the init script - makes sure that the conffile is
>> removed on upgrade - removes the symlink farm on upgrade

I applied this, even if I don't understand two things:

from rules file:
ifeq ($(DIST_NAME),Ubuntu)
        echo
"modaliases=vboxguest(pci:v000080EEd0000CAFEsv00000000sd00000000bc*sc*i*
)"
>> debian/$(gdkms).substvars
        echo
"modaliases=vboxx11(pci:v000080EEd0000BEEFsv00000000sd00000000bc*sc*i*)"
>> debian/$(uxname).substvars
endif

so how Debian gets the alias? (or is this something unrelated, e.g.
because Ubuntu ships the kernel module also inside the kernel package?)


>> 
>> (BTW, I think the vb-guest-utils init script could be similarly 
>> redundant, but I have not tested).

I checked it. it seems to modprobe the vboxsf kernel module, but a
modinfo vboxsf |grep alias
returned nothing.

can you please enlighten me also on this?

thanks a lot

Gianfranco
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