Need help downgrading virtualbox-guest-*

sidra · 2015-09-05 12:49:42

Hi, I ran into some trouble after the last update and I need help rolling a few packages back.
I am runnign Arch linux as a virtualbox guest to Windows 7.

I upgraded my system recently and it turns out that the new versions of the virtualbox-guest-*-5.* don't work with dual window/display settups inside virtualbox.
(Link to bug reports & solutions).
As described in the bug report xrandr doesn't detect the second screen, despite it being set by the virtualbox host.

The versions that I am trying to roll back to are the 4.3.28:

virtualbox-guest-dkms-4.3.28-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
virtualbox-guest-iso-4.3.28-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
virtualbox-guest-modules-4.3.28-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
virtualbox-guest-modules-4.3.28-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
virtualbox-guest-modules-4.3.28-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
virtualbox-guest-modules-lts-4.3.28-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
virtualbox-guest-utils-4.3.28-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

As suggested in the bug report I tried downgrading the packages to the 4.3.28 versions, but when I restart the guest additions are disabled. Also I get a notification that vboxservice.service is not running.

I tried starting the service manually using systemctl but I get no output or anything, it just doesn't start.

Now when I rolled back some of the packages I got a message about using dkms command and I entered it. Which supposedly re-compiled the modules for the current kernel ?

My kernel is the default one, newly updated : 4.1.6-1-ARCH.

I know that I am missing something here but I can't seem to find out what... Any ideas ?

(I also updated my virtualbox app inside windows.)

Mr.Elendig · 2015-09-05 13:12:11

Build the old version from abs, might work better, if not, post full output and logs.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2015-09-05 13:13:28)

sidra · 2015-09-05 13:27:46

Mr.Elendig wrote:

Build the old version from abs, might work better, if not, post full output and logs.

What do you mean by abs ? I am using pacman to install the packages from the cache, since I still have them locally.

Mr.Elendig · 2015-09-05 13:37:21

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System

(use the asp tool or the web interface instead of the `abs` tool)

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2015-09-05 13:38:34)

sidra · 2015-09-05 14:03:21

Thanks I didn't know about abs. I will try it out & report back.

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#1 2015-09-05 12:49:42

Need help downgrading virtualbox-guest-*

#2 2015-09-05 13:12:11

Re: Need help downgrading virtualbox-guest-*

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Re: Need help downgrading virtualbox-guest-*

#4 2015-09-05 13:37:21

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