X Window System in Fedora

jwaterworth · Post by **jwaterworth** » 20. Sep 2008, 19:51

I've been trying to get the virutalbox addons to install in fedora all night.

After I install and restart, there is no difference.

I updated the whole system and tried again and got this:

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[jack@fedora ~]$ su
Password: 
[root@fedora jack]# cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.4_33808/
[root@fedora VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.4_33808]# ls
AMD_PCnet    driver  os2                     VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
AUTORUN.INF  gina    VBoxGuestAdditions.exe  VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg
[root@fedora VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.4_33808]# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.6.4 Guest Additions for Linux installation.................................................................................
............................................................................................
VirtualBox 1.6.4 Guest Additions installation
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel module...
Building the shared folder support kernel module...
Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions...

Unknown version of the X Window System installed.
./install.sh: line 417: return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script
Successfully installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions.
You must restart your guest system in order to complete the installation.
[root@fedora VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.4_33808]#

and now I cant boot into X at all. I double installed fedora to make sure it wasn't the updates that were causing it. Any ideas? D:

Post by **Sasquatch** » 20. Sep 2008, 20:32

What version of Fedora are you using? If it's Fedora 9, it uses a work-in-progress version of Xorg, 1.5rc and that is not supported by the GA yet.

There is also a newer version of VB. Please upgrade to at least 1.6.6 or 2.0.2 and try again.

jwaterworth · Post by **jwaterworth** » 21. Sep 2008, 16:47

i am using fedora9. Thanks for the tip. i'll try it out.