Installing Guest Additions on Ubuntu hangs
Posted: 24. Mar 2011, 19:05
Background info on my 10.04 VM:
When I try to install Guest Additions on my VM, the command hangs on the line "You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used" without ever returning me to my prompt.
Which looks to indicate where it might be hanging.
Forcibly rebooting the machine at this point does not result in have GA installed. Nor does repeated attempts at installing the guests additions. Any ideas?
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$ dpkg --get-selections | grep dkms
dkms install
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep essential
build-essential install
$dpkg --get-selections | grep headers
linux-headers-2.6.32-26 install
linux-headers-2.6.32-26-generic-pae install
linux-headers-2.6.32-27 install
linux-headers-2.6.32-27-generic-pae install
linux-headers-2.6.32-28 install
linux-headers-2.6.32-28-generic-pae install
linux-headers-2.6.32-29 install
linux-headers-2.6.32-29-generic-pae install
linux-headers-2.6.32-30 install
linux-headers-2.6.32-30-generic-pae install
linux-headers-generic-pae install
$ uname -a
Linux john-vm 2.6.32-30-generic-pae #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 23:01:33 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/LinuxThe VBoxGuestAdditions.log shows:$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.0.4 Guest Additions for Linux.........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
tar: Record size = 8 blocks
Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done.
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules ...done.
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules ...done.
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done.
You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used
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Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions ...done.
Start VirtualBox Guest Addition ServiceForcibly rebooting the machine at this point does not result in have GA installed. Nor does repeated attempts at installing the guests additions. Any ideas?