Clipboard stops working. Unable to restart VBox Additions
Posted: 16. Jan 2013, 18:07
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 (guest) on Windows 7 (host). Every now and then, clipboard sharing (e.g. from host to guest) stops working. The only way to get it back to work is to restart the machine.
Before I file a ticket, I was wondering if anyone has had this problem before and if there is a recommended course of action. I have seen old tickets that have been closed (and presumably fixed) in relation to this problem.
I have also read online that restarting the VirtualBox Additions service could bring clipboard sharing back, but if I try to do so, I get an error message:
I have not specified any shared folders (I haven't even touched that feature since I installed VirbualBox), so I am not sure what may be causing this.
I can post the log files if that helps, but there are five log files (VBox.log, VBox.log.1, VBox.log.2, VBox.log.3, and VBox.log.4), and if I paste them all (411864 chars) it would exceed the allowed number of characters (60000 chars).
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Before I file a ticket, I was wondering if anyone has had this problem before and if there is a recommended course of action. I have seen old tickets that have been closed (and presumably fixed) in relation to this problem.
I have also read online that restarting the VirtualBox Additions service could bring clipboard sharing back, but if I try to do so, I get an error message:
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$ /etc/init.d/vboxadd restart
Stopping VirtualBox Additions ... fail!
(Cannot umount vboxsf folders)I can post the log files if that helps, but there are five log files (VBox.log, VBox.log.1, VBox.log.2, VBox.log.3, and VBox.log.4), and if I paste them all (411864 chars) it would exceed the allowed number of characters (60000 chars).
Does anyone have any suggestions?