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stubb

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Registered: 2011-12-01

Posts: 13

/usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxservice.service not available

Hi,

i want to move away from the daemon array, but virtualbox makes trouble.

root# systemctl enable vboxservice.service
Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory

root# ls /usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxservice.service
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxservice.service: No such file or directory

root# pacman -Ql virtualbox | grep service
virtualbox /usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxweb.service

same after removing the cached pkg of the package and a reinstall.
The PKGBUILD tells me that the file have to be there (https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … albox#n280), but why isn't it available?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: More info
the package version:

root# pacman -Si virtualbox
Repository     : community
Name           : virtualbox
Version        : 4.2.4-1
URL            : http://virtualbox.org
Licenses       : GPL  custom
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : curl  libpng  libvncserver  libxcursor  libxinerama  libxml2  libxmu  sdl
                 virtualbox-host-modules
Optional Deps  : qt: VirtualBox GUI support
                 vde2: Virtual Distributed Ethernet support
                 virtualbox-sdk: Developer kit
                 virtualbox-host-source: Host kernel source modules for non-stock kernels
                 net-tools: Host-only or bridged networking support
Conflicts With : virtualbox-ose
Replaces       : virtualbox-ose
Download Size  : 18802,15 KiB
Installed Size : 75064,00 KiB
Packager       : Sébastien Luttringer <seblu@seblu.net>
Architecture   : x86_64
Build Date     : Sa 27 Okt 2012 04:23:19 CEST
MD5 Sum        : efab320fd7f74bcec935757e7aa6f72d
SHA256 Sum     : 85f3c26598ee601c773e426939f075b8e7e03fe8bb923fb2126dc81671dd1e9b
Signatures     : Yes
Description    : Powerful x86 virtualization for enterprise as well as home use

pacman with debug:

...
debug: extracting /usr/lib/virtualbox/
debug: extract: skipping dir extraction of usr/lib/udev/
debug: extract: skipping dir extraction of usr/lib/systemd/
debug: extract: skipping dir extraction of usr/lib/systemd/system/
debug: extracting /usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxweb.service
debug: extract: skipping dir extraction of usr/lib/udev/rules.d/
debug: extracting /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules
debug: extracting /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/
debug: extracting /usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/
...

Last edited by stubb (2012-11-11 15:54:28)

stubb

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Registered: 2011-12-01

Posts: 13

Re: /usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxservice.service not available

It's provided by virtualbox-guest-utils, not sure if it's a bug or a feature?

mhertz

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2010-06-19

Posts: 681

Re: /usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxservice.service not available

From glancing through the wiki shortly(i'm a qemu-kvm man), then it's a service for syncing host and guest and hence why it's in the guest-utils package. It's not something you *need* for running virtualbox, but an additional service...

The pkgbuild of the main virtualbox package you linked to, also has that service listed under the 'package_virtualbox-guest-utils()' heading.

Last edited by mhertz (2012-11-11 16:30:57)