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 D98B9198005 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 14:04:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 528CCE0802; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 14:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm17-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (nm17-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.94.236.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0C15E07A7 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 14:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.94.237.126] by nm17.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Mar 2013 14:03:48 -0000 Received: from [98.139.221.53] by tm1.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Mar 2013 14:03:48 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp106.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Mar 2013 14:03:47 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 989850.19568.bm@smtp106.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: ecSqJI0VM1lk_VgpI_pjeC1kfO6n_MfgUUwQVY.R9HqQBJq 5eBV0N7VGc.36r9PJYCl9KgjOTfbAr3xE0a.gEw9ER6fKoeDghCB03Nucmcj .1z6GOGbnbg5jlF.WlTupqG.L41Dq3DgwLTonlkRl1tK9VNJhfB8Qz9evKXr n.gDROjNtkir2_cd6DJ9IFeG1YgZEsMAMpUYkV2NJ5gsFiNp_2N8qrsYr5f. cwzTLxkkwa8iogu.y5otoXgv1.z835XMluivNKcozQWe87K5eNJjZgAY4Yh9 xWewUYayn.RqOLREOaWgEE93XRpVWH9wkcWY7t.JBX37AlfGSdr7ysFsTkkd CqqzKPAoBFcGaWYtvwNXsBqEDhYdvWmkxMtSjCohSvwMG88pdp26gKRZtwu1 ENN14de_JtfY0Z5sgFkVGPqLyul2ixij5BGUEPZkJX6NbR8xIXPM9A8kpcgu Up3ZTdOac X-Yahoo-SMTP: oM3WcDSswBC7zv73TQKEsi7eAZ0- Received: from [192.168.1.2] (w41ter@69.234.182.200 with plain) by smtp106.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 03 Mar 2013 06:03:47 -0800 PST Message-ID: <51335843.9010101@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 06:03:47 -0800 From: walt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130223 Thunderbird/17.0.3 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests References: <51324B16.6010701@gmail.com> <51334F5F.4090605@gmail.com> <1362318311.11226.0@numa-i> In-Reply-To: <1362318311.11226.0@numa-i> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 74a918bd-2a86-4621-867b-f08bb3ee9d74 X-Archives-Hash: 561565d464f94ff354997c192a1b6ad4 On 03/03/2013 05:45 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > 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. Good. Most days I'm running the latest kernel from Linus's git repository instead of gentoo-sources, so that's probably the cause of my recent problem and why virtualbox-modules-4.2.8 didn't install when I upgraded virtualbox. Shame on me for not noticing the build failure :(