On 02/04/2020 12:40 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 02/04/2020 04:31 AM, Frank Batschulat wrote: >> I must admit I cannot grasp and understand all what you wrote below >> but I can tell you we do not support the 5.5 kernel series yet, refer to: >> >> Ticket #19145 (accepted defect) >> Opened 8 weeks ago >> linux: kernel 5.5-rc1/rc2 - we need changes >> https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19145 > > Thank you Frank -- that's it. Arch is now on the 5.5 kernel, and it seems the > package changes to a number of packages to support that kernel bring > Virtualbox to its knees. > > The description of NIC interface not created/times out, early filesystem use > in boot cannot be flushed to persistent sources, and udevd failing to start is > just a way of describing "It all goes to hell in a handbasket" with the 5.5 > kernel! >
Frank, Just a heads up. The changes in other packages (I don't know which yet) required to support 5.5 also impact Virtualbox. After the guest failed to start under 5.5, I downgraded the kernel to 5.4 (where the guests had been working fine). The same problem remains. The guests will not start in any functional way. Virtualbox reports that the guests are started fine, but instead of booting in 30 sec or so, after 15 minutes a basic Archlinux guest is not yet fully booted. The drive indicator is pegged on the host -- though there doesn't appear to be any I/O taking place. Once the guest does finally present a console login: prompt, attempting to log in, never makes it to actually asking for the password, instead after a minute or two of just spinning, the "login timeout" error is received. This occurs both when the guests are started headless, or when run from the VirtualBox GUI. This now occurs with builds: testcase 5.2.35 (135458) 5.2.36 testcase 5.2.37 (135942) It occurs on the 5.4 kernel and on the 4.19 LTS kernel on Archlinux. So apparently there are changes to another package (python?) I'm still trying to sort this out. Have you heard of any other issue surrounding package updates impacting virtualbox? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
