Issue installing Guest Additions SUSE Linux Enterprise D 11

[BenW]

Hello,

As my subject says, I am having an issue when installing Guest Additions in SUSE.

Before I tried to install guest additions I first installed gcc, kernal-source, and ruby while installing SUSE. When my installation was completed I selected "Install Guest Additions..." in the VirtualBox window containing my virtual machine. Almost immediately, the CD or DVD was mounted and appeared on my desktop. There was also a popup asking if I wanted to run the software. I did and nothing happened. After about 30 seconds I opened browsed the CD and ran "VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run" in the terminal (I have attached the terminal text). Everything looked good so I rebooted my machine and now Gnome is not running on startup. What have I done wrong or what can be done to repair this issue so that I can use Guest additions with SUSE?

As a side note I have just begun an introduction to Linux course, my knowledge is very limited. However, I am comfortable trying several different methods or pull up information from different corners of my installation.

Thanks in advance,
~Ben

[particleman]

What does your Xorg.0.log say about what failed? If I were you I would start checking my logs.

[Perryg]

You may not have all that you need to compile kernel modules. Below is what I install.

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sudo zypper install gcc make automake autoconf kernel-source kernel-devel

Then install the guest additions again. (auto-mount and run usually does not work)
Use the command line in a terminal to access the guest additions and run them from there.

[BenW]

Thanks for the quick replies guys.

Where can I find my xorg.0.log?

This is what the terminal spit out when I tried installing those packages

'gcc' is already installed.
'make' is already installed.
'automake' not found.
'autoconf' not found.
'kernel-source' is already installed.
'kernel-devel' not found.

[particleman]

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

more /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE

install linux-kernel-headers kernel-source kernel-syms make gcc gcc-c++

[BenW]

I have attached the log. This log is pulled from my installation prior to the reboot that caused the GUI to disappear. Go snapshots! haha

Xorg.0.log

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[BenW]

Oops, forgot to add, it said something like not a valid location. I'll pull up the exact error message in one second.

EDIT: The exact error message reads as:

install: target 'gcc-c++' is not a directory

[particleman]

I forgot to tell you to install dkms also it recompiles modules for you when there are kernel updates and i have seen GA logs complain about certain things w/o dkms but GA's still work. Do you have a working desktop now? Sounds like you do now just run the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run and it should work.

[BenW]

I'm still getting the 'is not valid directory' error. What am I doing wrong?

[particleman]

install dkms and try to install th GA again I lost my 11.4 m5 iso but I had GA working fine so it *should* work for you.

[BenW]

I tried install dkms and received the following error
install: missing destination file operand after 'dkms'

When I tried 'install linux-kernel-headers kernel-source kernel-syms dkms make gcc gcc-c++', I received the following error.
install: target 'gcc-c++' is not a directory

What am I missing at the end of the command? and thanks for your help so far!!!

[stefan.becker]

Not "install ....".

"zypper install ..." is correct.

[BenW]

Everything installed beautifully... except the additions.

Here are two screenshots of my Linux installation. The first one is what it looks like when I start up the machine now and the second one is an attempt to pull up the xorg.0.log file.

http://img338.imageshack.us/i/suseloginscreen.jpg/
http://img831.imageshack.us/i/susexorglog.jpg/

[stefan.becker]

Try without an xorg.conf (mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.bak).

[BenW]

I don't think anything new happened, the screen flickered and then started up just like my last screenshot.

http://img407.imageshack.us/i/suseloginscreen2.png/