| 2008-10-09 21:40:41 |
Tessa |
bug |
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added bug |
| 2008-12-08 15:04:17 |
Daniel Hahler |
virtualbox-ose: status |
New |
Incomplete |
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| 2008-12-08 15:04:17 |
Daniel Hahler |
virtualbox-ose: statusexplanation |
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Please try purging and reinstalling virtualbox-ose (aptitude purge virtualbox-ose && aptitude install virtualbox-ose).
Then check, if the vbox.cfg script has been installed correctly.
Please also check if purging removed the manually extracted vbox.cfg before installing it again. |
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| 2009-01-01 23:24:44 |
Daniel Hahler |
virtualbox-ose: status |
Incomplete |
Triaged |
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| 2009-01-01 23:24:44 |
Daniel Hahler |
virtualbox-ose: importance |
Undecided |
Medium |
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| 2009-01-01 23:24:44 |
Daniel Hahler |
virtualbox-ose: statusexplanation |
Please try purging and reinstalling virtualbox-ose (aptitude purge virtualbox-ose && aptitude install virtualbox-ose).
Then check, if the vbox.cfg script has been installed correctly.
Please also check if purging removed the manually extracted vbox.cfg before installing it again. |
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| 2009-01-01 23:25:58 |
Daniel Hahler |
title |
Virtualbox 2.0.2 missing config |
Virtualbox 2.0.2 missing config (vbox.cfg) due to upgrade (through non-ose package) |
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| 2009-01-06 20:25:29 |
Daniel Hahler |
description |
Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose
After installing virtualbox-ose-2.0.2-dfsg-0ubuntu3 on Intrepid beta (amd64), VirtualBox doesn't work. When run from the commandline, it complains:
"Could not find VirtualBox installation. Please reinstall."
Looking at the actual virtualbox shell script which is being run, it's failing because /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg is missing. This file doesn't seem to be provided by any package on intrepid. I assume it was included in previous package versions, and there was just a packaging error that caused it to be missed from the current package, but its absence pretty much breaks VirtualBox. |
Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose
After installing virtualbox-ose-2.0.2-dfsg-0ubuntu3 on Intrepid beta (amd64), VirtualBox doesn't work. When run from the commandline, it complains:
"Could not find VirtualBox installation. Please reinstall."
Looking at the actual virtualbox shell script which is being run, it's failing because /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg is missing. This file doesn't seem to be provided by any package on intrepid. I assume it was included in previous package versions, and there was just a packaging error that caused it to be missed from the current package, but its absence pretty much breaks VirtualBox.
virtualbox-2.1 (the "official", PUEL package) does the following in postinst:
if [ -f /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg ]; then
echo "Found old version of /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg, removing."
rm /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg
fi
Therefore, I think this problem happens when you install virtualbox-ose, then virtualbox-2.1 (or another package from virtualbox.org), _without_ purging virtualbox-ose before and afterwards re-install virtualbox-ose (which does not re-create the removed vbox.cfg file then).
I'm not sure how to address this though (maybe make sure during installation of virtualbox-ose that the file gets created always?) and it seems like a packaging issue with the official packages. |
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| 2009-01-06 20:26:11 |
Daniel Hahler |
description |
Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose
After installing virtualbox-ose-2.0.2-dfsg-0ubuntu3 on Intrepid beta (amd64), VirtualBox doesn't work. When run from the commandline, it complains:
"Could not find VirtualBox installation. Please reinstall."
Looking at the actual virtualbox shell script which is being run, it's failing because /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg is missing. This file doesn't seem to be provided by any package on intrepid. I assume it was included in previous package versions, and there was just a packaging error that caused it to be missed from the current package, but its absence pretty much breaks VirtualBox.
virtualbox-2.1 (the "official", PUEL package) does the following in postinst:
if [ -f /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg ]; then
echo "Found old version of /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg, removing."
rm /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg
fi
Therefore, I think this problem happens when you install virtualbox-ose, then virtualbox-2.1 (or another package from virtualbox.org), _without_ purging virtualbox-ose before and afterwards re-install virtualbox-ose (which does not re-create the removed vbox.cfg file then).
I'm not sure how to address this though (maybe make sure during installation of virtualbox-ose that the file gets created always?) and it seems like a packaging issue with the official packages. |
Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose
After installing virtualbox-ose-2.0.2-dfsg-0ubuntu3 on Intrepid beta (amd64), VirtualBox doesn't work. When run from the commandline, it complains:
"Could not find VirtualBox installation. Please reinstall."
Looking at the actual virtualbox shell script which is being run, it's failing because /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg is missing. This file doesn't seem to be provided by any package on intrepid. I assume it was included in previous package versions, and there was just a packaging error that caused it to be missed from the current package, but its absence pretty much breaks VirtualBox.
DISCOVERIES (from Daniel):
virtualbox-2.1 (the "official", PUEL package) does the following in postinst:
if [ -f /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg ]; then
echo "Found old version of /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg, removing."
rm /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg
fi
Therefore, I think this problem happens when you install virtualbox-ose, then virtualbox-2.1 (or another package from virtualbox.org), _without_ purging virtualbox-ose before and afterwards re-install virtualbox-ose (which does not re-create the removed vbox.cfg file then).
I'm not sure how to address this though (maybe make sure during installation of virtualbox-ose that the file gets created always?) and it seems like a packaging issue with the official packages. |
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| 2009-05-24 01:59:18 |
Daniel Hahler |
bug watch added |
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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530321 |
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| 2009-05-24 01:59:18 |
Daniel Hahler |
bug task added |
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virtualbox-ose (Debian) |
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| 2009-05-24 02:00:07 |
Launchpad Janitor |
virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu): status |
Triaged |
Fix Released |
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| 2009-05-25 01:43:53 |
Bug Watch Updater |
virtualbox-ose (Debian): status |
Unknown |
New |
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| 2009-05-26 00:53:54 |
Bug Watch Updater |
virtualbox-ose (Debian): status |
New |
Incomplete |
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| 2009-05-28 23:01:14 |
Bug Watch Updater |
virtualbox-ose (Debian): status |
Incomplete |
New |
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| 2009-05-29 22:31:12 |
Bug Watch Updater |
virtualbox-ose (Debian): status |
New |
Fix Released |
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| 2009-07-22 01:10:30 |
Launchpad Janitor |
branch linked |
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lp:ubuntu/karmic/virtualbox-ose |
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