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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
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 22:11:09
Message-Id: 6aae1bcb-935a-cdb0-c487-9f6941b3de7a@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update [ probably RESOLVED ] by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 On 2/8/21 10:47 PM, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > Thelma
5 > On 2/8/21 2:39 PM, n952162 wrote:
6 >> On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote:
7 >>> VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update
8 >>>
9 >>> You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in
10 >>> the strace is a clone.
11 >>>
12 >>> Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix?
13 >>>
14 >>> VBoxClient has behaved like this before, if memory serves. Either I've
15 >>> just forgotten what the problem was, or something new has popped up.
16 >>>
17 >>>
18 >> I just saw that my virtualbox-modules emerge failed.
19 >>
20 >> Probably related to this:
21 >>
22 >> $ uname -a
23 >> Linux txm0 *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9 19:51:52 CEST 2020 x86_64
24 >> GNU/Linux
25 >>
26 >> $ lt  /usr/src/
27 >> total 16
28 >> drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Feb  3 02:14 linux-5.4.92-gentoo
29 >> drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Dec 30 19:17 linux-5.4.80-gentoo-r1
30 >> drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 12 21:55 linux-4.19.72-gentoo
31 >> drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Oct 20 23:50 linux-5.4.72-gentoo
32 >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   20 Nov  8  2019 linux -> linux-*4.19.72-gentoo*
33 >>
34 >> I'm not sure why I have all these newer versions of the kernel ...
35 >>
36 >> What should I be at?  For an amd64...
37 >>
38 >> Oh man...
39 >>
40 >> $ eselect kernel list
41 >> Available kernel symlink targets:
42 >>   [1]   linux-5.4.72-gentoo
43 >>   [2]   linux-5.4.80-gentoo-r1
44 >>   [3]   linux-5.4.92-gentoo
45 >>
46 >> Was there an adminstrative step that I missed there?
47 > Somehow you manged to unmerged the kernel in use, re-emerge it again: linux-4.19.72-gentoo (and set it as default)
48 > and try to recompile again.
49 >
50
51 Okay, tomorrow.