Hi Jacek, this behavior seems to happen on a few machines out there. Do you get a message box containing the error message or just an entry in the event viewer? Also, the service can't be started manually at the moment; this is fixed in the next upcoming release.
Regards, Andreas Jacek wrote: > I built Win2k3 guest on VBox 1.6 (Ubuntu). After upgrade of VBox to 1.6.2 > everything worked perfectly. But I noticed that my Guest Add On is outdated > (1.6 on 1.6.2 VBox) so I upgraded it. And the service stopped to work: > > Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the VirtualBox Guest Additions > Service service to connect. > > The VirtualBox Guest Additions Service service failed to start due to the > following error: > The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely > fashion. > > Manual start does not work either. > > On the other hand VBox Add On icon is on task tray and at least some > features are working (for example shared folders). Any ideas how to fix it? > (Reinstallation did not helped. BTW: The error remained even after > deinstallation!) > > Jacek > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeste¶ Polakiem i mieszkasz za granica? Sprawdz! > kliknij >>> http://link.interia.pl/f1e38 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
