Package: virtualbox
Version: 5.1.14-dfsg-1
Severity: important
On host shutdown, usually virtualbox does follow /etc/init.d/virtualbox.
this file has an syntax error that leads to VMs being hard killed as the
stop function is not working at all while the host goes down.
I my self am no script boy, so I have no clue whats exactly the reason
for this, I only know, the shutdown script did not work as intended. And
I was not the only one with the problem. I was looking the very first
time into the Linux shutdown routine. And by some luck I got a clue from
the code highlighting function in VIM while looking at
/etc/init.d/virtualbox: Something is amiss with the stop() function.
I modified the code "stop()" to "hstop()" (h for no reason, but I did
later try c for custom but that does not work either) and changed all
calls to "stop" from "stop" to "hstop". With this modification the
shutdown code is working now as intended. see picture for where I got my
hint from.
Again, I am no coder and I have no clue as to why thats a syntax error,
for me it does look perfectly right in the original version, but it wont
work that way.
My OS is openmediavault 3.0.96 (Erasmus)
4.9.0-0.bpo.5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2~bpo8+1
On the machine I did discover this bug, virtualbox is part of the
omv-extra.org plugin collection. I did notify the plugin
maintainer/admin of omv-extra.org via forum.openmedavault.org, he
suggested to report it.
More details see:
https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php/Thread/21643-Virtualbox-does-NOT-shutdown-VMs-gracefully-when-OMV-host-goes-down-eg-power-fai/?postID=167615#post167615
Hope this is a hint for you guys to track it down.
regards
ManneBK
