Bug 499897 - [VirtualBox-OSE] Virtual machine aborts after initialization
Summary: [VirtualBox-OSE] Virtual machine aborts after initialization
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mencal
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Lubomir Rintel
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-08 18:56 UTC by Justin Newman
Modified: 2009-11-30 17:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-08-04 17:03:38 UTC
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Description Justin Newman 2009-05-08 18:56:17 UTC
Description of problem: VirtualBox-OSE crashes and the machine status changes to "Aborted" a few seconds after starting


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.2.2


How reproducible: Create and start any VM on VirtualBox-OSE


Actual results: VM crashes out without any error message


Expected results: VM boots and runs with no crashes


Additional info: As I understand it, release versions of VirtualBox ahve error logging turned off, so I'm not sure how to debug this. If there's any relevant info I can provide just request it.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 15:28:57 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Lubomir Rintel 2009-08-04 12:10:07 UTC
Justin: Are you still able to reproduce this?
You may want to report it to RPM Fusion bugzilla [1], since Fedora does not ship VirtualBox-OSE.

[1] http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/

Comment 3 Justin Newman 2009-08-04 16:43:44 UTC
Wow, did not even notice that. What's wrong with the VBox-OSE license? GPLv2?

Anyway, I've long since moved to the non-free version, which has been working fine.

Comment 4 Lubomir Rintel 2009-08-04 17:03:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Wow, did not even notice that. What's wrong with the VBox-OSE license? GPLv2?

License's not a problem. VirtualBox-OSE requires external kernel module and kernel modules which outside of the main kernel package are not allowed.

Comment 5 Justin Newman 2009-08-04 17:10:40 UTC
... sigh. I love Fedora, really I do, but the package base is anaemic and things like that are part of the reason why. ^^

Anyway, sorry about the misfiled bug. Closing.

Comment 6 Lubomir Rintel 2009-08-04 17:42:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> ... sigh. I love Fedora, really I do, but the package base is anaemic and
> things like that are part of the reason why. ^^

Hm, 8829 [1] packages. That feels far from "anaemic" to me.
[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/bugs/index/

Comment 7 Justin Newman 2009-08-04 17:52:55 UTC
8829 doesn't really compare well with 25113 [1], does it? I run into something that's missing pretty much every time I turn around.

Anyway, didn't mean to start anything...

[1] http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian

Comment 8 Lubomir Rintel 2009-08-04 18:58:02 UTC
Well, not starting anything.... anyways, that's rather unfair -- the number 25113 seems pretty much made up :)

Actually -- it's 28251 packages. Binary packages:

$ wget -qO - 'http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages?format=txt.gz' |gunzip |wc -l
28251

Well, short skim through the list reveals that most of it are subpackages; pretty much duplicates. Let's eliminate those (and well, maybe ~100 innocent packages):

$ wget -qO - 'http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages?format=txt.gz' |gunzip |sed 's/[ -].*//' |sort |uniq |wc -l
11453

Quite different number, huh? And some of them are just compat packages of obsolete software:

$ wget -qO - 'http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages?format=txt.gz' |gunzip |sed 's/[ -].*//;s/[0-9\.]*$//' |sort |uniq |wc -l
10129

I am aware that the regexps are not prefect, but enough for a rough comparison. You get the point. Moreover, they ship stuff that's included in RPM Fusion, and we grow much faster.


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