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anomaaly

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Registered: 2017-10-30

Posts: 2

VirtualBox 5.2.2 - No longer able to start GUI machine after upgrading

I just upgraded to version 5.2.2r119230 and I can no long start up machines with --type gui. I get the following on errors:

VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine 'gitt' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine

~/.config/VirtualBox/VBoxSVC.log provides the following:

00:01:27.235667 nspr-4   ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={85cd948e-a71f-4289-281e-0ca7ad48cd89} aComponent={MachineWrap} aText={The object functionality is limited}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
00:01:28.760326 Watcher  ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) aIID={85cd948e-a71f-4289-281e-0ca7ad48cd89} aComponent={MachineWrap} aText={The virtual machine 'gitt' has terminated unexpectedly during startup because of signal 11}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0

My host machine is run on a headless server so I ssh -X to get a GUI when I need to.

So I purged virtualbox, rebooted, installed it a gain, this time with virtualbox-host-modules-arch instead of virtualbox-host-dkms, rebooted again and got the same errors. I tried reloading the modules with vboxreload and got the following output:

Unloading modules: vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxpci vboxdrv 
Loading modules: vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxpci vboxdrv

Same errors as before. I'm not sure where the access denied is coming from, my user owns all the normal files. I'm running kernel version 4.14.5-1.

I can start headless guest servers just fine.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,065

Re: VirtualBox 5.2.2 - No longer able to start GUI machine after upgrading

You probably need to build a host and guest package of that same version .
try https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/virtualbox-svn/

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2017-12-14 11:30:41)

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anomaaly

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Registered: 2017-10-30

Posts: 2

Re: VirtualBox 5.2.2 - No longer able to start GUI machine after upgrading

This is an issue I discovered trying to create a new machine after the update so the host and the guest should be in sync, version-wise. I'm not sure what virtualbox-svn is. And needing something from the AUR for this problem doesn't seem right. What is it?

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,065

Re: VirtualBox 5.2.2 - No longer able to start GUI machine after upgrading

My mistake, i saw "upgraded to version 5.2.2r119230" and assumed you had installed a svn version .

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky