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On 03/03/2013 03:03:47 PM, walt wrote: |
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> On 03/03/2013 05:45 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> > On 03/03/2013 02:25:51 PM, walt wrote: |
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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 |
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> 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 |
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> to |
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> >> >>> boot normally with the second most recent snapshot (both |
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> guests). |
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> >> >>> |
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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 |
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> make |
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> >> >>> an extra snapshot just before you update to vbox-4.2.8 in case |
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> 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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> >> >> |
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> >> >> What did the crashes say? |
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> >> > |
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> >> > The usual :) "Windows has encountered a problem and must |
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> close..." |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Just now I updated a second gentoo machine that (I thought) is |
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> the |
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> >> > same as this one, but I didn't the crashes on that machine, so I |
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> don't |
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> >> > know what to think now. I hope nobody else has the same problem. |
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> >> |
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> >> Crap, I just noticed that virtualbox-modules-4.2.8 won't compile |
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> against |
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> >> the latest 3.8.x kernels : |
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> > |
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> > virtualbox-modules-4.2.8 builds just fine with gentoo-sources-3.8.1 |
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> here |
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> > Helmut. |
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> |
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> Good. Most days I'm running the latest kernel from Linus's git |
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> repository |
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> instead of gentoo-sources, so that's probably the cause of my recent |
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> problem |
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> and why virtualbox-modules-4.2.8 didn't install when I upgraded |
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> virtualbox. |
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> Shame on me for not noticing the build failure :( |
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> |
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No, that cannot be the reason for the failure on your machine. |
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I have been following git-sources 3.8-rc 3..7 without any problems with |
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virtualbox. |
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Helmut. |
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