Bug#833782: /usr/sbin/VBoxService: VBoxService exits immediately

2016-10-04 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna 
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> Sometimes when I boot my VM, the virtualbox-guest-utils service fails.
> It appears to start and then immediately exit with status 0.
> 

this seems to be a race condition, due to some bug in the old sysvinit script.
I would really like somebody giving a patch to make it systemd friendly
The upstream service file is too different to be useful here :/

G.



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Bug#833782: /usr/sbin/VBoxService: VBoxService exits immediately

2016-08-08 Thread Sam Morris 
Package: virtualbox-guest-utils
Version: 5.0.24-dfsg-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/VBoxService

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Sometimes when I boot my VM, the virtualbox-guest-utils service fails.
It appears to start and then immediately exit with status 0.

$ systemctl status virtualbox-guest-utils
● virtualbox-guest-utils.service - VirtualBox Guest Additions
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/virtualbox-guest-utils.service; enabled; 
vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Mon 2016-08-08 16:35:24 BST; 
7s ago
 Docs: man:VboxService(8)
  Process: 4105 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/VBoxService (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 4108 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Aug 08 16:35:24 wintermute systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Service 
hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Aug 08 16:35:24 wintermute systemd[1]: Stopped VirtualBox Guest Additions.
Aug 08 16:35:24 wintermute systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Start 
request repeated too quickly.
Aug 08 16:35:24 wintermute systemd[1]: Failed to start VirtualBox Guest 
Additions.
Aug 08 16:35:24 wintermute systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Unit 
entered failed state.
Aug 08 16:35:24 wintermute systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Failed 
with result 'start-limit-hit'.

Launching VBoxService -v produces the following:

Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute systemd[1]: Starting VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: VBoxService 5.0.24_Debian r108355 
(verbosity: 5) linux.amd64 (Jun 30 2016 08:54:14) release log
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.58 main Log 
opened 2016-08-08T15:41:58.695068000Z
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.000190 main OS 
Product: Linux
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.000231 main OS 
Release: 4.6.0-1-amd64
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.000265 main OS 
Version: #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1 (2016-07-18)
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.000298 main 
Executable: /usr/sbin/VBoxService
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.000299 main Process 
ID: 5049
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.000300 main Package 
type: LINUX_64BITS_GENERIC (OSE)
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.002396 main Guest 
Property: /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VBoxService/--timesync-interval not found
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.002713 main Guest 
Property: /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VBoxService/--timesync-min-adjust not found
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.003020 main Guest 
Property: /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VBoxService/--timesync-latency-factor not found
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.003315 main Guest 
Property: /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VBoxService/--timesync-max-latency not found
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.003605 main Guest 
Property: /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VBoxService/--timesync-set-threshold not found
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.003898 main Guest 
Property: /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VBoxService/--timesync-set-start not found
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.004191 main Guest 
Property: /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VBoxService/--timesync-set-on-restore not found
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.004660 main 
5.0.24_Debian r108355 started. Verbose level = 5
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5049]: 00:00:00.004724 main 
Daemonizing...
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute systemd[1]: Started VirtualBox Guest Additions.
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Service 
hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute systemd[1]: Stopped VirtualBox Guest Additions.
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute systemd[1]: Starting VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5066]: VBoxService 5.0.24_Debian r108355 
(verbosity: 5) linux.amd64 (Jun 30 2016 08:54:14) release log
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5066]: 00:00:00.000112 main Log 
opened 2016-08-08T15:41:58.964933000Z
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5066]: 00:00:00.000313 main OS 
Product: Linux
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5066]: 00:00:00.000401 main OS 
Release: 4.6.0-1-amd64
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5066]: 00:00:00.000479 main OS 
Version: #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1 (2016-07-18)
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5066]: 00:00:00.000557 main 
Executable: /usr/sbin/VBoxService
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5066]: 00:00:00.000560 main Process 
ID: 5066
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5066]: 00:00:00.000561 main Package 
type: LINUX_64BITS_GENERIC (OSE)
Aug 08 16:41:58 wintermute VBoxService[5066]: 00:00:00.003452 main Guest 
Property: /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VBoxService/--timesync-interval not found
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