On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:19:28PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > Starting VirtualBox Additions...FATAL: Error inserting vboxadd > (/lib/modules/2.6.23.8-slh-smp-2/misc/vboxadd.ko): No such device > invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox-ose-guest-utils, action "start" failed. > dpkg: error processing virtualbox-ose-guest-utils (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > virtualbox-ose-guest-utils > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > $ dmesg | tail -n 2 > vboxadd: initializing version 0.5 > vboxadd: VirtualBox PCI device not found.
This looks like you're trying to install the guest-utils outside the virtual machine. This won't work and does not make sense anyway. What I will do for the next version is to check whether the script is run inside the VM or not. > Please just let udev do this, it works fine. What did you do to get this to work. It definitely does not work for me. > The unconditional modprobe of vboxadd is far from safe. Please also don't do > this in the maintainer scripts, not even with a pipe to true. This is already removed and will be fixed with the next upload. However, your error message from above comes from calling /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose-guest-utils which has to modprobe the module. Or at least I don't see an alternative atm. > vboxvfs will be handled by its mount wrapper, or it should be. Please do not > unconditionally modprobe it either. Which wrapper? But then vboxvfs is not modprobed anyway. The only occurence was in the postinst that I already fixed. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go SF 49ers! Go VfL Borussia! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]