Your message dated Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:01:10 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: bad error message hides real problems has caused the Debian Bug report #760517, regarding bad error message hides real problems to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected] immediately.) -- 760517: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760517 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---Package: virtualbox Version: 4.3.14-dfsg-1 Severity: normal The first error message in this strace is output by /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD, and points to an actual, understandable and fixable problem: 23157 write(1, "Wrong mode (42700) of '/tmp/.vbo"..., 94) = 94 23157 exit_group(0) = ? 23157 +++ exited with 0 +++ But virtualbox then throws that error away instead of displaying it, and instead gives the user some nonsense message about factories with strange stuff numeric error codes and addresses and talk of COM objects (on Linux?!). 23144 <... poll resumed> ) = 1 ([{fd=6, revents=POLLHUP}]) 23144 read(6, "", 1) = 0 23144 close(6) = 0 23144 write(2, "VBoxManage", 10) = 10 23144 write(2, ": ", 2) = 2 23144 write(2, "error: ", 7) = 7 23144 write(2, "Failed to create the VirtualBox "..., 39) = 39 23144 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 23144 write(2, "VBoxManage", 10) = 10 23144 write(2, ": ", 2) = 2 23144 write(2, "error: ", 7) = 7 23144 write(2, "Code NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGIST"..., 102) = 102 23144 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 23144 write(2, "VBoxManage", 10) = 10 23144 write(2, ": ", 2) = 2 23144 write(2, "error: ", 7) = 7 23144 write(2, "Most likely, the VirtualBox COM "..., 73) = 73 23144 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 23144 read(4, 0x7fff1037d3cf, 1) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) virtualbox should display the original, real error message instead of (or at least in addition to) this generic, useless one. -- see shy jo
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---(cleaning up ancient bugs.) if this is still a issue, please reopen.
--- End Message ---
