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From: thelma@×××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update [ probably RESOLVED ]
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 21:47:39
Message-Id: 13c44dfb-b804-cde5-1422-6e01d93185a5@sys-concept.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update [ probably RESOLVED ] by n952162
1 Thelma
2 On 2/8/21 2:39 PM, n952162 wrote:
3 > On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote:
4 >> VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update
5 >>
6 >> You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in
7 >> the strace is a clone.
8 >>
9 >> Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix?
10 >>
11 >> VBoxClient has behaved like this before, if memory serves. Either I've
12 >> just forgotten what the problem was, or something new has popped up.
13 >>
14 >>
15 >
16 > I just saw that my virtualbox-modules emerge failed.
17 >
18 > Probably related to this:
19 >
20 > $ uname -a
21 > Linux txm0 *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9 19:51:52 CEST 2020 x86_64
22 > GNU/Linux
23 >
24 > $ lt  /usr/src/
25 > total 16
26 > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Feb  3 02:14 linux-5.4.92-gentoo
27 > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Dec 30 19:17 linux-5.4.80-gentoo-r1
28 > drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 12 21:55 linux-4.19.72-gentoo
29 > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Oct 20 23:50 linux-5.4.72-gentoo
30 > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   20 Nov  8  2019 linux -> linux-*4.19.72-gentoo*
31 >
32 > I'm not sure why I have all these newer versions of the kernel ...
33 >
34 > What should I be at?  For an amd64...
35 >
36 > Oh man...
37 >
38 > $ eselect kernel list
39 > Available kernel symlink targets:
40 >   [1]   linux-5.4.72-gentoo
41 >   [2]   linux-5.4.80-gentoo-r1
42 >   [3]   linux-5.4.92-gentoo
43 >
44 > Was there an adminstrative step that I missed there?
45
46 Somehow you manged to unmerged the kernel in use, re-emerge it again: linux-4.19.72-gentoo (and set it as default)
47 and try to recompile again.

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