VB update display resolution problem

[Kilted]

All,

The latest VB update VirtualBox-4.3.8-92456 after the pack additons no longer givens full monitor resolution:

• Host is windows 7 at the current MS rev level.
  VB version is the current VirtualBox-4.3.8-92456
  Client is CentOS 6.5
  Client starts up OK display is at default rez of 1024x768
  I run VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
  All OK except: Installing graphics libraries and desktop services component [FAILED]
  Log file one entry; "install _x11_startup_app: no script given"
  and the normal VBox display resolution for the hardware is not provided.

Any one know what went wrong?

Thank you,
=D~~ Kilted

[Perryg]

All OK except: Installing graphics libraries and desktop services component [FAILED]

During the install you should have seen why it failed. Install again and watch the terminal window for errors.

Also if you do not see an error you need to post the /var/log/vboxadd-install.log ( as an attachment ).

[Kilted]

Here is the console output from reinstall;

......
[root@frodo VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.8_92456]# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.3.8 Guest Additions for Linux............
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 4.3.8 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
add_symlink: link file /usr/lib64/VBoxGuestAdditions already exists
add_symlink: link file /usr/share/VBoxGuestAdditions already exists
Installing additional modules ...
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
Building the main Guest Additions module [ OK ]
Building the shared folder support module [ OK ]
Building the OpenGL support module [ OK ]
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions [ OK ]
You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used

Installing the Window System drivers
Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not installing
X Window System drivers.
[ OK ]
Installing graphics libraries and desktop services componen[FAILED]
(See the log file /var/log/vboxadd-install-x11.log for more information.)
[root@frodo VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.8_92456]#
.............

So the actual problem is: Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed.

Seemed strange the previous version of VBox had no problem.

[root@frodo VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.8_92456]# uname -a
Linux frodo 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 12 00:41:43 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

=D~~ Kilted

[Kilted]

OK here is the vboxadd-install.log. First time failed -- to large, I then compressed it.

[Perryg]

Well the unknown version is all you need to see to be able to tell that it will fail.

what version is it?

[Kilted]

There is nothing special here just the standard version that comes with CentOS 6.5, there's nothing strange or exotic, just what comes straight from .iso or off the repros.

=D~~ Kilted

[Perryg]

This is a default CentOS 64-bit install

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[cent@centos ~]$ cat /etc/issue
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
Kernel \r on an \m

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[cent@centos ~]$ uname -a
Linux centos.localdomain 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 12 00:41:43 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[cent@centos ~]$ Xorg -version

X.Org X Server 1.13.0
Release Date: 2012-09-05
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: c6b9 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux centos.localdomain 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 12 00:41:43 UTC 2014 x86_64
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_centos-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_centos/lv_swap rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd_LVM_LV=vg_centos/lv_root  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet crashkernel=129M@0M
Build Date: 20 December 2013  12:09:45PM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.13.0-23.1.el6.centos 
Current version of pixman: 0.26.2
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
	to make sure that you have the latest version.

And it works as it should.

[Kilted]

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[root@frodo ~]# cat /etc/issue
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
Kernel \r on an \m

[root@frodo ~]# uname -a
Linux frodo 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 12 00:41:43 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@frodo ~]# Xorg -version

X.Org X Server 1.13.0
Release Date: 2012-09-05
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: c6b9 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux frodo 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 12 00:41:43 UTC 2014 x86_64
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_frodo-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS rd_LVM_LV=vg_frodo/lv_root LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=129M@0M rd_LVM_LV=vg_frodo/lv_swap  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
Build Date: 20 December 2013  12:09:45PM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.13.0-23.1.el6.centos 
Current version of pixman: 0.26.2
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
[root@frodo ~]# 

Looks the same as your sample.

=D~~ Kilted

[Perryg]

Try downloading the stand alone guest additions and run them. Maybe the one packed in your download is corrupt.

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... _4.3.8.iso

[Kilted]

No Joy, same error.

I even downloaded a fresh copy of VBox, I did a remove and re-install and then started CentOS and reloaded the extensions from new download as suggested.

[Perryg]

Does it still say unknown version or Xorg?

[Kilted]

Yes the sane error:

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[root@frodo VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.8_92456]# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.3.8 Guest Additions for Linux............
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 4.3.8 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
add_symlink: link file /usr/lib64/VBoxGuestAdditions already exists
add_symlink: link file /usr/share/VBoxGuestAdditions already exists
Installing additional modules ...
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules       [  OK  ]
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
Building the main Guest Additions module                   [  OK  ]
Building the shared folder support module                  [  OK  ]
Building the OpenGL support module                         [  OK  ]
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions              [  OK  ]
You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used

Installing the Window System drivers
Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed.  Not installing
X Window System drivers.
                                                           [  OK  ]
Installing graphics libraries and desktop services componen[FAILED]
(See the log file /var/log/vboxadd-install-x11.log for more information.)

[Perryg]

I don't know what else to say.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60330

If you read the last line in the changelog it states we are up to 1.15 with 4.3.8.

You may need to post a ticket at bugtracker

[Kilted]

Yup,

That's my problem. I'll submit a bug report later this weekend.

Thank you,
=D~~ Kilted

[Kilted]

OK, I fixed my problem.

The CentOS system that was loaded had a number of boot errors. Since I did not have anything critical yet I reloaded with a new copy of CentOS 6.5 release.

After getting the gcc libraries loaded and kernel-devel loaded the Vbox guest additions compiled and loaded.

I'm back to my research project: snapshots using rsync.

Thank you
=D~~Kilted