Perhaps one of these two (which are actually a common single issue), which recently caused trouble in both rawhide and F22 - and which I crashed into before the systemd daemon-reexec workaround was discovered and documented ?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229416 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224211 On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Louis King Jr <inlieuof...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Michael. Perry explained this was a different issue. > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Michael Thayer <michael.tha...@oracle.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello Louis, >> >> I don't remember precisely, but in my case I don't think it was caused by >> the X server. I think that this is a systemd bug where systemd's internal >> state gets out of sync, and that it can be caused by lots of different >> things (the first report I saw of it was over a year ago<1>, so probably >> long before that X server version appeared). >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael >> >> <1> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/2584 >> >> On 01.10.2015 19:11, Louis King Jr wrote: >>> >>> 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 <mailto: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 >>> <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 <mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org> >>> https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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 > -- --alessandro "don't underestimate the things that I will do" (Adele, "Rolling In The Deep") _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
