Problems with Ubuntu 10.04 Guest

[rah2435]

No...I'm trying anything I can to get my share mounted. I thought maybe the GA wasn't getting loaded so I tried to start it manually.
Maybe this is not the right approach?

I use "seamless" mode and that is now working great. Still can't mount my share though...

also - got this from dmesg:

vboxdrv: exports duplicate symbol RTMemExecFree (owned by vboxguest)

Anyone know what this means or what I'm doing wrong with my share?


thanks again,
rich

[Perryg]

List the share name and the complete path to the share here.
Also list the command that you are using to mount the share, and the directory (complete path) of the mount point.

[rah2435]

The windows path is c:\source and I map it to /source in UBUNTU.
here's the command I use:

sudo mount -t vboxsf source /source

[Perryg]

So did you chmod /source to be accessible?
Try this and see what happens.

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sudo -i <enter> password <enter>

mkdir /mnt/source
mount -t vboxsf source /mnt/source

[rah2435]

thanks.

here's what I get:

rich@rich-laptop:/etc$ sudo -i
root@rich-laptop:~# mkdir /mnt/source
root@rich-laptop:~# mount -t vboxsf source /mnt/source
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device
root@rich-laptop:~#

[Perryg]

You know I seem to remember having this problem one time on 10.04.
I re-installed the guest additions by removing them and installing them again and did not have the problem. Reboot between uninstall and reinstall.
I have been using 10.04 since pre-alpha is why I did not remember this before.

[rah2435]

are you using guest additions v 3.1.6 or 3.1.7.

I just installed 3.1.7 hoping it would make a difference but it didn't seem to.

Rich

[Perryg]

3.1.6. If I remember correctly the 3.1.7 was for a few that had a different xorg or something like that.
I am running 10.04 now on 3.1.6 and it is working so it must be a problem with the install for you.
Make sure that you follow the directions exactly and Linux is case sensitive.

[rah2435]

well...here's the latest!!

I ran the install of 3.1.7 virtual box guest from the ISO file
it looked like it installed ok BUT when i did an
dpkg -l

all that was listed is 3.1.6 packages... ???

SO - I un-installed all the virtual box packages using apt-get remove.
Then did an install of all the packages (virtualbox-ose, -ose-guest, ose-dkms, -ose-guest-dkms, etc.

during install of virtualbox-ose I got this error:
DKMS: install Completed.
* Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
* Starting VirtualBox kernel modules
* modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why
[fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox-ose, action "restart" failed.

not sure what all this means, but it doesn't look good.

also the mount still doesn't work :

root@rich-laptop:/mnt/iso# mount -t vboxfs source /source
mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxfs'


ugh!!!!!

Rich

[Perryg]

Dude. Remove the OSE stuff you installed. You can't be using the OSE version of VBox on Windows unless you compiled it yourself.

Then click on the device tab at the top and click install guest additions.
It will install the correct version for your copy of VB.

[TrotskyIcepick]

The windows path is c:\source and I map it to /source in UBUNTU.
here's the command I use:

sudo mount -t vboxsf source /source

Surely this is just simply a case of the sharename being the same as the mount point? They need to be different.

[TrotskyIcepick]

Any ideas re my full screen issue? Or is this problem more suited to a Ubuntu forum? (I suspect it might )

[skibum1981]

I have the same problem regarding the full screen issue!

Actually, I'm almost certain it is linked to Compiz and/or Emerald. If I do a metacity --replace then the problem goes away....

... the troubling thing is that I didn't have this problem when I had Ubuntu 9.10. This started as soon as I upgraded...

[skibum1981]

What's so curious about this is that compiz/emerald run fine when you're not in full screen, but as soon as you go to full-screen, freezes. The window manager freezes. Compiz is still running fine, as I can rotate the 3D cube and all, but I cannot type in a window, or move around a window at all. Killing emerald by using "metacity --replace" in an f2 works, but of course this kills compiz as well (for reasons that I'm unaware of, you can't seem to use metacity with compiz?).

Interestingly, if I write an xorg.conf, full screen works w/ compiz, but this of course means that I cannot make the Ubuntu guest automatically resize to arbitrary resolutions when I change the size of the virtualbox window within the host OS (in my case Windows 7).

And yeah, reinstalling guest additions didn't work.

[rah2435]

First - thanks for the replies regarding my drive mount problem. VERY much appreciated.

>> Surely this is just simply a case of the sharename being the same as the mount point? They need to be different.

Well, this is what I had before (Ubuntu 9.xx guest) and it mounted without a hitch.

about the OSE version - I'm dealing with a Ubuntu linux guest, not a windows guest. Windows 7 is my host environment.
The packages are listed like this in ubuntu using "dpkg -l | grep virtual" from the command line.

ii virtualbox-ose 3.1.6-dfsg-2ubuntu2 x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
ii virtualbox-ose-dkms 3.1.6-dfsg-2ubuntu2 x86 virtualization solution - kernel module
ii virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms 3.1.6-dfsg-2ubuntu2 x86 virtualization solution - guest addition
ii virtualbox-ose-guest-utils 3.1.6-dfsg-2ubuntu2 x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest
ii virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 3.1.6-dfsg-2ubuntu2 x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest util
ii virtualbox-ose-qt 3.1.6-dfsg-2ubuntu2 x86 virtualization solution - Qt based use

So they look like valid ubuntu packages....
Should I still remove them and try another method of getting the ubuntiu guest additions?

thanks again,
Rich