Odd file permission when creating a new file (sometimes)

[Leon]

I'm using a Virtualbox VM as a local dev LAMP stack. When I create a new file in the shared folder on my host OS the file permissions on the guest OS are "weird". They're all question marks and red (ls -al). I also can't stat the file.

When searching in the Virtualbox bug tracker I found this upstream bug:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9887

I now upgraded to Virtualbox 4.1.17 and the bug is indeed solved in that version.

[Leon (leonbo)]

Using Ubuntu's Virtualbox (4.1.12) with the newest Guest Additions iso (4.1.17) also resolves this issue.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

Which VirtualBox version are you using?

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

Ah nevermind, haven't seen comment #1.

[Leon (leonbo)]

Yeah, I wasn't really complete: Host OS: Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop / Virtualbox 4.1.12
Guest OS: Ubuntu 12.04 server / jeos

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 4.1.18-dfsg-1

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virtualbox (4.1.18-dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Fixes host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts. (LP: #1012627)
    - Fixes odd permissions of files in shared folders. (LP: #1013368)
  * Drop 37-fix-unregister-netdevice.patch, fixed upstream.
  * Compress orig tarball and binary packages with xz.

 -- Felix Geyer <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:31:17 +0200