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On 03/02/2013 10:55 AM, walt wrote: |
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> On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two different |
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>>> Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host). |
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>>> |
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>>> Luckily, only the most recent snapshot crashed and I was able to |
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>>> boot normally with the second most recent snapshot (both guests). |
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>>> I didn't lose anything important because the only thing I use |
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>>> Windows for is to run Windows Update :) (know thine enemy, etc) |
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>>> |
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>>> Maybe if you have important stuff on a Win7 guest you should make |
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>>> an extra snapshot just before you update to vbox-4.2.8 in case you |
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>>> need to delete the last one. |
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>>> |
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>>> BTW, I had no problems with linux guests so far. |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> What did the crashes say? |
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> The usual :) "Windows has encountered a problem and must close..." |
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> Just now I updated a second gentoo machine that (I thought) is the |
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> same as this one, but I didn't the crashes on that machine, so I don't |
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> know what to think now. I hope nobody else has the same problem. |
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Crap, I just noticed that virtualbox-modules-4.2.8 won't compile against |
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the latest 3.8.x kernels :( That means I've been using the 4.2.6 kernel |
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odules while running vbox-4.2.8. That might explain the crashes but I |
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can't say for certain. At least it's an excuse :) |
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