Wayland Env: Issue with copying text from Terminal & pasting results in extra lines

[multiOS]

Here you go: https://installati.one/almalinux/8/xorg ... -xwayland/

[agilis]

Ah, I see. OK, I took "unaware" to mean you didn't know if it had been done, not that you didn't know how to do it.

Honestly, I'm in the same boat. I don't know how to do it either. I only surmise it as a test because Wayland gives Virtualbox a bit of trouble over the clipboard and a couple other things.

A spot of web-searching on how to enable XWayland or switch to X11 may help you figure out what to try.

Ahh no worries. Yeah I responded and instantly regretted it

I will have to investigate and research on how exactly I could accomplish what you have suggested. I will be unable to tackle that today however as soon I do, I will update this thread.

Cheers!

[agilis]

Here you go: https://installati.one/almalinux/8/xorg ... -xwayland/

Wow! Thank you very much for that! I will install that first thing once I get a chance and report back. Cheers!

[fth0]

Another thing to try:

I noticed that you're using VirtualBox 7.0.8 in combination with the VirtualBox Guest Additions (GA) 6.1.44. While both versions are from April 2023 and should have more or less the same bugfixes, there are some implementation differences of course. For a test, install the GA 7.0.9r157702, reboot the guest OS and see if the issue persists.

Edit:
The GA 7.0.9r157702 (or newer) can be found on the VirtualBox test builds page.

[agilis]

Ok I will try that first and report back. I am not sure how I have an older version of VirtualBox Guest Additions.

[agilis]

Another thing to try:

I noticed that you're using VirtualBox 7.0.8 in combination with the VirtualBox Guest Additions (GA) 6.1.44. While both versions are from April 2023 and should have more or less the same bugfixes, there are some implementation differences of course. For a test, install the GA 7.0.9r157702, reboot the guest OS and see if the issue persists.

I'm not sure where you saw that VirtualBox Guest Additions v6.1.44 was installed in my guest OS. I just ran a reinstall of the Guest Additions and the installer reported that it was removing 7.0.8 first.

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Removing installed version 7.0.8 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...

I am also unable to find GA 7.0.9r157702

[scottgus1]

I'm not sure where you saw that VirtualBox Guest Additions v6.1.44 was installed in my guest OS.

This will be from the log posted at the beginning of this topic:

00:00:15.018820 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 6.1.44 r156814 '6.1.44'
00:00:22.357017 VMMDev: Guest Log: 15:07:25.523376 main VBoxService 6.1.44 r156814 (verbosity: 0)

There seem to not be any more later logs posted showing any subsequent changes.

[fth0]

I am also unable to find GA 7.0.9r157702

Sorry, I forgot to post the link to the the VirtualBox test builds page.

[agilis]

I'm not sure where you saw that VirtualBox Guest Additions v6.1.44 was installed in my guest OS.

This will be from the log posted at the beginning of this topic:

00:00:15.018820 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 6.1.44 r156814 '6.1.44'
00:00:22.357017 VMMDev: Guest Log: 15:07:25.523376 main VBoxService 6.1.44 r156814 (verbosity: 0)

There seem to not be any more later logs posted showing any subsequent changes.

Thank you for that information. That is very strange and I do not know why the log was off. I reattached a VBox.zip that has been freshly generated.

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00:00:10.018536 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 7.0.8 r156879 '7.0.8'
00:00:10.018583 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Interface = 0x00010004 osType = 0x00053100 (Linux >= 2.6, 64-bit)

[agilis]

I am also unable to find GA 7.0.9r157702

Sorry, I forgot to post the link to the the VirtualBox test builds page.

Thank you! I will try the latest test build and report back.

[agilis]

Okay, I will not be able to install a test build of VirtualBox because this is a work machine and I do not have permission to adjust parameters needed to install the test build of VirtualBox. Would it be okay to install just the Guest Additions?

[scottgus1]

Sure, go ahead and try just the GAs.

[agilis]

Okay thank you! Doing so now

[agilis]

Update: Sad to report that the latest GAs resulted in the same issue.

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00:00:10.507720 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 7.0.9 r157702 '7.0.9'
00:00:10.507776 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Interface = 0x00010004 osType = 0x00053100 (Linux >= 2.6, 64-bit)

Not sure where to go from here or how to help further. I'm going to also fill out a bug report for AlmaLinux 9. I will post and update once I know something and will check here regularly.

[scottgus1]

How about the Wayland/XWayland/X11 idea?