From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271F5198005 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 13:45:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08F39E083B; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 13:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.7.72]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 728FDE081B for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 13:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Received: from mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.186]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0MJ3004SD7J98FC0@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:45:09 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,774,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="212732195" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:45:09 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id r23Dj83k015961 for ; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:45:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45827C8C for ; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:45:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:45:11 +0100 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <51324B16.6010701@gmail.com> <51334F5F.4090605@gmail.com> In-reply-to: <51334F5F.4090605@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.91-7-g3440dfb Message-id: <1362318311.11226.0@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: ee9d6860-2c8b-48d1-9ffb-6f811e8a1a15 X-Archives-Hash: c85ed114f136958fe179e79a2bcb59f2 On 03/03/2013 02:25:51 PM, walt wrote: > On 03/02/2013 10:55 AM, walt wrote: > > On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt wrote: > >>> After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two > different > >>> Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host). > >>> > >>> Luckily, only the most recent snapshot crashed and I was able to > >>> boot normally with the second most recent snapshot (both guests). > >>> > >>> I didn't lose anything important because the only thing I use > >>> Windows for is to run Windows Update :) (know thine enemy, etc) > >>> > >>> Maybe if you have important stuff on a Win7 guest you should make > >>> an extra snapshot just before you update to vbox-4.2.8 in case you > >>> need to delete the last one. > >>> > >>> BTW, I had no problems with linux guests so far. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> What did the crashes say? > > > > The usual :) "Windows has encountered a problem and must close..." > > > > Just now I updated a second gentoo machine that (I thought) is the > > same as this one, but I didn't the crashes on that machine, so I > don't > > know what to think now. I hope nobody else has the same problem. > > Crap, I just noticed that virtualbox-modules-4.2.8 won't compile > against > the latest 3.8.x kernels : virtualbox-modules-4.2.8 builds just fine with gentoo-sources-3.8.1 here Helmut. ( That means I've been using the 4.2.6 kernel > odules while running vbox-4.2.8. That might explain the crashes but I > can't say for certain. At least it's an excuse :) >