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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hello Maintainers</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">m a student of Linux</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">The institute provided me with Debian Kernel 2.6.32, which I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">upgraded and patched to 2.6.33.1.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">m using VirtualBox on Windows 7.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I keep</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">OVA</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">from the different stages as backup.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have also installed the Complete Debian</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Desktop System</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, which I downloaded from debian.org.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">In all three versions I installed VirtualBoxGuestAdditions (correction: the Complete Desktop System</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">was gracefully provided with it).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">However, neither on 2.6.32, nor 2.6.33.1 X starts.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">I have installed in both systems virtualbox-guest-additions using apt-get install</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. Alternatively, I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">install</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ed</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the guest additions</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">from the .iso image file which I obtained from VirtualBox.org</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Prior to any new install of the guest additions I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">properly</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">uninstalled the prior version</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and concluded each uninstall by restarting the system.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">That way,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">I tried versions 4.0.2 (that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">s the version of my VirtualBox system) and 3.2.10.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">In either case</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> I get the error</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">(in console 1)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Failed to load module</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">vboxvideo</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> (module does not exist, 0) SELinux> Disabled on system, not enabling in X server</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, when I start X Server. The virtual console remains black</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have given up trying any more, but thought I let you guys know for what it</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">s worth.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Of course, I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">d be glad to receive any hints or advice, if you consider the problem being on my installations.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Best regards</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Lorenz Schindlbeck</FONT></SPAN></P>
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