Discuss the 4.1.20 release

[frank]

Discuss the 4.1.20 release.
You can download it from here.

[bbergman]

Hmm.

I'm trying to upgrade from 4.1.17 on MacOS 10.6.8. All prior upgrades have gone swimmingly up until today. This one seems to install fine, but at the very end of the installation process, it fails and says "Installation Failed" (see attached image). Now I can't seem to go back to 4.1.17. The VirtualBox app is showing 4.1.20, even though it didn't fully install, and attempting to run it says the package may be damaged.

A friend at work said that he had the same problem with 4.1.17->4.1.18, but he simply quit the installer and rebooted and 4.1.17 came back. He has NOT tried to upgrade past .17 since then. Lucky him.

Suggestions on what I should do next?

Thanks!
Bruce
(the forums won't let me inline the image yet, but it's attached below)

[AntiMatter]

The 4.1.20 Release Notes said:

Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs

Is it the sharing of the clipboard between Host & Guest? If so, there must be a good reason for doing so. What is that reason?

[mpack]

What is that reason?

See here for a previous discussion of that question.

[AntiMatter]

Hi mpack,

Thanks for the link, that answered my question and strangely enough I have had the exact same reaction than you

[BCD3]

After upgrading to 4.1.20 from 4.1.18, my Fedora 17 guest installation has been glitchy. The Activities screen randomly comes up with out selecting 'Activities', moving the mouse to the upper left corner or using the keyboard. It does seem related to mouse movement, but not for every move, just some, and not consistantly (at least that I can tell). Any help would be appreciated. I did install the 4.1.20 guest additions. I also recently did an upgrade for Fedora 17, but this seems to be a mouse integration issue.

I have attached the latest VBox log file.

[mongorian]

I am having a similar issue as BCD3 and on 2 separate systems - both running Fedora 17 fully updated. I am using KDE instead of Gnome, but the issues sound the same... when moving Windows around the workspace they are trying to snap to different edges / corners of the desktop even though I am nowhere near those part of the workspace.

--- UPDATES on this ---
When I updated to 4.1.20 initially I pulled all of the Fedora updates *prior* to installing the new guest additions. There were quite a bit of updates to pull, including kernel, as it had been a while since I updated.

In order to isolate this issue I uninstalled 4.1.20 and reverted back to 4.1.18. I can confirm that this issue still exists with a fully patched Fedora 17 guest on VirtualBox 4.1.18 & guest additions. So, it now looks like this problem is coming from the Fedora updates specifically, not from VirtualBox 4.1.20.

I am going to try booting with the previous kernel, rebuild the guest additions (init.d/vboxadd setup), and then see where I am. I will post another update shortly...

--- UPDATE ---
The previous kernel (3.5.1-1.fc17) exhibits the same behavior as the latest kernel (3.5.2-3.fc17). Looking at the Fedora patches that were installed I do see a new xorg-x11-server-Xorg (1.12.3-1.fc17).

It looks as though disabling Desktop Effects completely corrects this behavior. I will be turning them off for now.

Any ideas what could be causing this or where I can look to determine?

[BCD3]

What steps did you do to turn off the desktop effects? I don't find any tools that have any effect. I tried the gnome-tweak-tool but no help.

Thanks for the help... I posted a question on the Fedora site also...

UPDATE:
The cuprit is the xorg-x11-servers (xorg-x11-server-common, xorg-x11-server-Xorg, xorg-x11-server-Xephyr) all version 1.12.3-1.fc17.
I downgraded to 1.12.0-2.fc17 and the problem was resolved.

[mongorian]

Thanks for the update!! I saw those xorg packages in the list of latest updates and thought they were likely the culprit. I hadn't gotten as far as rolling them back though. I will try running the yum downgrade command from this ask Fedora post (http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/2 ... r-software) and post back if it resolves the issue for me too...


As far as turning off the Desktop Effects, in KDE that was done in the System Settings -> Desktop Effects window. I'm not sure where it would be in Gnome, but I believe it's in there somewhere. However, it seems that turning off Desktop Effects only improved usability a little. As I used the system more I realized that it did not correct it completely.

UPDATE --
Downgrading the xorg-x11-server packages (as noted in the above URL) FIXED both of my systems' virtual machines. As noted there, a bug has been submitted (#852841). I'll be watching this bug for an official fix and will be using the following in the meantime for pulling system updates...

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yum update -x 'xorg-x11-server*'

SO happy to have a working system again. Thanks, to all involved!

[Jitu]

Hi,

Currently am facing an issue when I use Virtualbox 4.1.20, as soon as I power on my guest machine, it hangs in between (after 4-5 seconds) and reboots my host.

Not sure why this must be happening.


PS : The guest is Oracle SampleApp VM which is Linux 64 bit demo Vm.

Regards,
Jitu