[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#787003: virtualbox: VM fails to start

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Control: tag -1 +pending
Control: merge -1 785689


We believe this is related to 785689, which is pending an upload in the
coming week.

virtualbox (4.3.18-dfsg-3+deb8u3) jessie; urgency=medium

  * d/p/39-crash-raw-mode.patch fix crash in raw mode.
    (Closes: #785689) from upstream changeset 53083
    thanks Frank for the hint!

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>  Tue, 19 May
2015 10:22:10 +0200


I'll try to see if we can push this sooner, to make it into the Jessie+1
point release, but I can't guarantee that.


On Wednesday 27 May 2015 10:17 PM, Björn Siebke wrote:
> Package: virtualbox
> Version: 4.3.18-dfsg-3
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>    * What led up to the situation?
> After having some kernel module issues, I successfully created a new VM.
>
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> I then started the VM for the first time. The VM window opens and the GUI asks
> me to select the boot media. I do that.
>
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> I get a message window "Starting virtual machine..." with 0%. Nothing changes,
> only after a while the main window (not the VM window) opens a new message
> window "Starting virtual machine..." with 20%. Even after a very long while
> nothing changes.
> When I kill the VM window (second virtualbox process) I get this error message
> in the main window: "Für die virtuelle Maschine Test konnte keine neue Sitzung
> eröffnet werden.
> [No new session could be opened for the VM.]
> No error info.
>
> Fehlercode:NS_ERROR_CALL_FAILED (0x800706BE)
> Komponente:ProgressProxy
> Interface:IProgress {c20238e4-3221-4d3f-8891-81ce92d9f913}"
>
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> The VM to start the boot media.
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.0
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages virtualbox depends on:
> ii  adduser          3.113+nmu3
> ii  dpkg             1.17.25
> ii  libc6            2.19-18
> ii  libcurl3         7.38.0-4+deb8u2
> ii  libgcc1          1:4.9.2-10
> ii  libgsoap5        2.8.17-1
> ii  libpng12-0       1.2.50-2+b2
> ii  libpython2.7     2.7.9-2
> ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.15-10+b1
> ii  libssl1.0.0      1.0.1k-3
> ii  libstdc++6       4.9.2-10
> ii  libvncserver0    0.9.9+dfsg-6.1
> ii  libvpx1          1.3.0-3
> ii  libx11-6         2:1.6.2-3
> ii  libxcursor1      1:1.1.14-1+b1
> ii  libxext6         2:1.3.3-1
> ii  libxml2          2.9.1+dfsg1-5
> ii  libxmu6          2:1.1.2-1
> ii  libxt6           1:1.1.4-1+b1
> ii  python           2.7.9-1
> ii  python2.7        2.7.9-2
> ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
>
> Versions of packages virtualbox recommends:
> ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  10.3.2-1
> ii  libqt4-opengl             4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3
> ii  libqtcore4                4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3
> ii  libqtgui4                 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3
> ii  virtualbox-dkms           4.3.18-dfsg-3
> ii  virtualbox-qt             4.3.18-dfsg-3
>
> Versions of packages virtualbox suggests:
> pn  vde2                            <none>
> pn  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso  <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."


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