VirtualBox hangs after upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10
Posted: 23. Dec 2008, 01:49
I upgraded to 8.10 last week, and a perfectly functioning version of virtualbox suddenly stopped working. Typical :P
Here's the symptoms:
No menu entry (not virtualbox's fault, I know)
I try to start it using command 'VirtualBox' from a terminal, but it then just hangs- no output, no log, nothing.
When I run a ps -ef |grep -i box I get the following:
Unfortunately I dont know what version of VB I ran prior to upgrading.
Current state:
o I have VirtualBox 2.1 installed (non-free)
o I have removed the bridge, so an ifconfig returns only info on eth0 and lo0.
Can anyone help me?
EDIT: I forgot to say that I have two modules loaded:
Here's the symptoms:
No menu entry (not virtualbox's fault, I know)
I try to start it using command 'VirtualBox' from a terminal, but it then just hangs- no output, no log, nothing.
When I run a ps -ef |grep -i box I get the following:
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fimblo 21276 6399 94 00:45 pts/0 00:00:06 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
fimblo 21289 21276 0 00:45 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
fimblo 21296 1 2 00:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --automateCurrent state:
o I have VirtualBox 2.1 installed (non-free)
o I have removed the bridge, so an ifconfig returns only info on eth0 and lo0.
Can anyone help me?
EDIT: I forgot to say that I have two modules loaded:
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$ lsmod |grep -i vb
vboxnetflt 92040 0
vboxdrv 118824 1 vboxnetflt