Bug#1037950: general: I had VBoxService installed in /sbin, but the program did not start

[Bert Nijhof]

Package: general
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: lammert.nij...@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

Virtualbox installed Guest Additions and I use VBoxService in Conky. It did not
work. Also when I type it in the terminal the program does not start, while in
all other distros it works. Here I had to start it like /sbin/VBoxService, so
Debian does not look for (new) executables or (new) links to executables in
/sbin.

Bug#1037949: general: After installing VBox Guest Addition on the reboot the system gets into an enternal loop

[Bert Nijhof]

Package: general
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: lammert.nij...@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

Debian was a fresh install. I tried to install VBox Guest Addtions like I have
done 100 times for at least 20 different distros. During that install I noticed
a small line, that said that the linux headers were missing. On the next reboot
the systen got into an eternal loop trying to add a VBox Service. The system
also looped selecting Grub Recovery mode.

I reinstalled Debian and before installing VBox Guest Additions, I installed
perl; make; gcc and the linux headers and afterwards the installation of VBox
Guest Additions was OK.

Other distros (e.g Ubuntu) avoid the installation of VBox Guest Additions, if
the dependencies are not satisfied and they clearly tell you what is missing.