Hackfest Today at DeVry 11-2PM

2012-07-14 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hackfest moves to DeVry in Phoenix 11:00-2PM 2nd Saturday of every month (today). DeVry University: Phoenix Campus 2149 West Dunlap Ave Phoenix, AZ 85021 http://www.it-clowns.com/c/index.php/hackfests/july/ http://www.it-clowns.com/c/index.php/hackfests/ -- (503) 754-4452 Android (623)

Weird virtualbox...

2012-07-14 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Well, the Gnomes are at work (again) in my box and I could certainly use some help to evict them... This is what's happening: I use: 'ssh -fCXY user@remotebox run-something' a lot. Works every time. Or 'mostly' every time... Now when I run (ONLY from *MY* box): ssh -fCXY turboviking

Re: Weird virtualbox...

2012-07-14 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi- On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:20 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Well, the Gnomes are at work (again) in my box and I could certainly use some help to evict them... This is what's happening: I use: 'ssh -fCXY user@remotebox run-something' a lot. Works every

Re: Weird virtualbox...

2012-07-14 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Latest version...:( No joy... Now, Virtual box works OK from its box or any other of my boxes that I SSH from. That being the case, I have to assume that the problem is with my box's kernel/X/SSH combination. Virtualbox is still running in the remote box, only the output is displayed

Re: Weird virtualbox...

2012-07-14 Thread Lisa Kachold
apt-get update This is possibly a known malloc issue with glibc for your chipset. Research requires full backtrace, versions, firmware and chipset versions. # dmidecode A post to the mint support might net more info although I would do exhaustive reasearch on the error x-referenced with your

Re: Weird virtualbox...

2012-07-14 Thread Michael Butash
Sounds hardware-ish as Lisa mentioned - I'd do a memtest on there, sounds like whenever something trys to grab a gob of ram, it hits a dead chip, poops itself, and exits with a malloc error. I've used just about every release of vbox for years now and never seen that. Either that or you have

Re: Weird virtualbox...

2012-07-14 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Well, I was able to determine that the 'malloc' error is happening in *MY* box (I thought it was happening on the *other* box), so I booted my box with a 'Rescatux' CD, installed SSH, did: ssh -fCXY user@remote virtualbox and it worked... What that means to me is that both, the last Xubuntu

Re: Weird virtualbox... [SOLVED]

2012-07-14 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Well, I wiped out Mint and installed Debian squeeze. All good now... :) ET kitepi...@kitepilot.com writes: Well, the Gnomes are at work (again) in my box and I could certainly use some help to evict them... This is what's happening: I use: 'ssh -fCXY user@remotebox run-something' a

Re: Weird virtualbox...

2012-07-14 Thread Stephen
I have traditionally had better luck with Nvidia graphics with Linux. however since the ATI/AMD merger they have REALLY stepped up their Linux driver support. so much so that a HUGE contract went from Nvidia to AMD fro graphics for the better Linux support. So before flipping graphics hardware i