[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#880594: virtualbox-guest-x11: 98vboxadd-xclient calls notify-send before Plasma is started, causing SDDM to hang

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hello,



>This diff looks reasonable. It is used on Netrunner and Neptune Distros 
>successfully.


thanks, also upstream confirmed being a valid fix in the meanwhile
>The /dev/vboxguest device only exists if you boot on virtualbox. 


sure
>So for example having a live system with KDE Plasma and virtualbox-guest-{x11, 
>utils,dkms} so that it boots on virtualbox and real machines will work pretty 
>fine on virtualbox but causes the delay on "real" hardware as it will trigger 
>the notify-send code. 


ack, I understand this use case (even if installing guest virtualbox packages without
being in a guest machine seems... useless!)

Uploaded the fix in unstable some minutes ago

thanks you both and sorry for the delay!
(please confirm both Debian Unstable or Ubuntu Bionic are fixed)
G.