according to PerryG, it is caused by the pre-release X.Org server in Fedora 23.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Michael Thayer <michael.tha...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hello George, > > Adding the list back on CC. I can't tell you anything more than what I > posted to the list and to the Ubuntu bug report: this seems to be a > systemd bug, and executing "systemctl daemon-reexec" seems to work > around it, or at least did when I had the same issue. You probably want > to be talking to Leonard and the systemd people about it though, not us. > > Regards, > > Michael > > On 01.10.2015 17:20, George R Goffe wrote: > > Michael, > > > > I sent the enclosed to the vbox mailinglist but got no responses. I > > happened to see your post so I'm sending you a copy. Can you help? > > > > Regards, > > > > George... > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install the VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.4.iso onto my Fedora 23 > > system. > > > > It's not going well. The Fedora 23 system is in a virtual machine on > > VBox 5.0.4. I started with 1 cpu and 1G of memory. The virtual 23 system > > ran out of memory... I went to 2G and got the same result. Now, the > > virtual 23 system is at 4G and 2 cpus and appears to be stuck. Possibly > > in systemd-tty-ask. Memory usage is increasing slightly but otherwise, > > the install seems to be consuming NO other resources (i.e., compute > time). > > > > I'm at a loss as to what to do at this point in time. > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > > > George... > > > -- > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer > Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering > 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:michael.tha...@oracle.com > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > vbox-dev@virtualbox.org > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >
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