(Resolved)GA's won't build against xserver Debian Jessie

[loukingjr]

So, I thought VB built up to xserver 1.16 if not 1.17.

I guess not? VB thinks it's experimental.

I reverted to 1.15.1 and pinned it for now.

[biffhero]

How did you do this?

I looked a number of places, but couldn't figure it out. I'm currently using my client at 1024x768 resolution.

Thanks,
Rob

[loukingjr]

How did you do this?

I looked a number of places, but couldn't figure it out. I'm currently using my client at 1024x768 resolution.

Thanks,
Rob

once I saw it wouldn't build I restored the previous version from a backup and pinned it.

[biffhero]

Do you still have the .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives/ ?

I think the output of "ls -alhrt /var/cache/apt/archives/ | grep xserver" and "dpkg -l | grep xserver" would set me on the right path. I'll hunt to download all of them, and then "dpkg -i ./*.deb"

Thanks,
Rob

[AMD1212]

I have exactly the same problem....upgraded and can't roll back because the old version is not in the repos anymore and i also not have it in /var/cache/apt/archives.
At the moment im also sitting here with an 1024x768 resolution.....but no troubles, the update is already in unstable (xserver 1.16) and the GA installer will work with that version.

<edit>
I guessed wrong. Debian is updating X to a version which is also not supported by the GA installer. 1.15.99 was recognised as beta version, 1.16.1 is an not supported version.....
</edit>

[biffhero]

I have exactly the same problem....upgraded and can't roll back because the old version is not in the repos anymore and i also not have it in /var/cache/apt/archives.
At the moment im also sitting here with an 1024x768 resolution.....but no troubles, the update is already in unstable (xserver 1.16) and the GA installer will work with that version.

<edit>
I guessed wrong. Debian is updating X to a version which is also not supported by the GA installer. 1.15.99 was recognised as beta version, 1.16.1 is an not supported version.....
</edit>

AMD1212,

I will try the module from 1.16.1 later today, bypassing the installer altogether. Or, to be more accurate, letting the GA installer do it's thing, skipping the X video driver, and then copying it by hand.

Thanks for the pointer to unstable, I will try pinning unstable for xserver-*. I haven't been successful using pinning yet, but I'm sure the problem is on my end.

Rob

[biffhero]

I will try the module from 1.16.1 later today

That was poorly worded. I meant, "I will try the 115 driver against the 1.16.1 xserver-xorg packages."

As an additional bit of information, I found GA version 4.3.13 in another thread on this forum. I haven't had any success with them, though.

Rob

[AMD1212]

As you can see in the history of this bug:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13207

There is a testversion of the GA's available now and on my machines its working.
https://www.virtualbox.org/download/tes ... -95180.iso

[loukingjr]

thanks for the link. Those worked for me as well. However, now I have other problems. nothing to do with VirtualBox however.

[biffhero]

As you can see in the history of this bug:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13207

There is a testversion of the GA's available now and on my machines its working.
https://www.virtualbox.org/download/tes ... -95180.iso

That test version of the GA's got my xorg back as well with the xorg that came out of testing on 23 July, 2014.

Thanks!

Rob

[ElQuia]

OK GUYS!!!! Nice THANKS for being here. I was going crazy with latest sparky and this xorg stuff. all cool

[loukingjr]

I'm surprised Sparky is based on Jessie.

[rgoliveira]

As you can see in the history of this bug:
[...]

There is a testversion of the GA's available now and on my machines its working.
[...]

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Just created this account to thank you for this info!
I was getting the "kernel headers were not found" error and this GA version worked as it should.

Edit: installing a guest Ubuntu 14.04

Thank you all!
Cheers.
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rgoliveira