[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#756819: no support for xorg-xserver 1.16

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

forwarded 756819 https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13207

thanks

Il Sabato 2 Agosto 2014 9:34, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at debian.org> ha scritto:


Hi all,

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>On 08/02/2014 07:28 AM, Caitlin Matos wrote:
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>I apologize, I'm not sure exactly which package this should be filed
against, but I'm pretty sure this is the correct one. I am on a Windows 8.1 host running Debian jessie. I updated xorg-xserver
etc. to the current version in testing, 1.16.0-1. However, I am no
longer able to use the X11-related guest utilities. The relevant output from VBoxLinuxAdditions.run in the guest additions
ISO: Installing the Window System drivers Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed.  Not
installing X Window System drivers. Looking at the code, the issue is obvious. It is searching for
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.14/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/vboxvideo_drv_116.so, which does not exist. This support needs to be added. I'm sure that's easier said than done,
and is probably an upstream problem. Meanwhile, however, this package
needs to change its xorg-xserver-core dependency, adding (<< 1.16.0).
>Gianfranco,
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>This was fixed in 4.3.14 ??
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Yes it was and it is.

the guest-addition is not built from source, so there is almost nothing we can do against this (unless we really want to hack the binaries)


ls /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.14/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/vbox
vboxadd               vboxmouse_drv_15.so   vboxvideo_drv_110.so  vboxvideo_drv_115.so  vboxvideo_drv_17.so   vboxvideo_drv.o
vboxadd-service       vboxmouse_drv_16.so   vboxvideo_drv_111.so  vboxvideo_drv_13.so   vboxvideo_drv_18.so   
vboxadd-x11           vboxmouse_drv_70.so   vboxvideo_drv_112.so  vboxvideo_drv_14.so   vboxvideo_drv_19.so   
vboxmouse_drv_13.so   vboxmouse_drv_71.so   vboxvideo_drv_113.so  vboxvideo_drv_15.so   vboxvideo_drv_70.so   
vboxmouse_drv_14.so   vboxmouse_drv.o       vboxvideo_drv_114.so  vboxvideo_drv_16.so   vboxvideo_drv_71.so   


I suggest to upload a fixed virtualbox-guest-additions-iso package with the break and to remove it from testing.
It is useless at this point.
the alternative can be to package this fixed version (taken from the bug report)

https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.15-95180.iso 

and upload again.

I think is better a development iso instead of a completely broken one, specially for testing.

Just my .02$


Gianfranco

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