From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 20 03:25:18 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7429AEB for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 03:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-x236.google.com (mail-vc0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c03::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6621F83F for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 03:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id ks9so282194vcb.13 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:25:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=f7gla+MswS6Dy/U66Qrqy1R6VGBX1+UKEIvoc/zB0ns=; b=DS6HNYcMsKfUaIZOp5GlcZaLXEhOGIUUqgaoejyrdW2yF/X3Vhtda2f96AC0HIDFm+ AR+5It8nQjGslBULaPMOpGv6kHPJQw4qYp+PUmiyH/KApzloGxXLcYDJqct4JdR4U9R0 29i4fhOtofdW4V04jL1DXEhCJH1YjuDcyWd96Wvh/KGWaWA/Gw1SLgIM2/LZ3fUic248 pAIVJTTAGrVOUbQlzV7d7BITA7rwyoyf9PLWUyxxasS0Wr9ZoTbAht3g6JME6dF4F2Mj L1+TRicidHeDAl0CsPOoD1K3DxNAYo8EcZ81h2wKxSRsPDEzHwSxh86U5e5amCIc3/gC IhhQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.61.133 with SMTP id p5mr27583595vdr.4.1395285917600; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.239.84 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:25:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:25:17 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: VBoxManage errors at boot From: Thomas Hoffmann To: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 03:25:18 -0000 On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Thomas Hoffmann wrote: > I'm running emulators/virtualbox-ose-4.3.8 on -CURRENT r263411 amd64. The > last several boot sequences I have noticed the following errors in the > console log: > > Mar 19 22:11:01 tortoise kernel: VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the > VirtualBox object! > Mar 19 22:11:01 tortoise kernel: VBoxManage: error: Code NS_ERROR_ABORT > (0x80004004) - Operation aborted (extended info not available) > Mar 19 22:11:01 tortoise kernel: VBoxManage: error: Most likely, the > VirtualBox COM server is not running or failed to start. > > I'm perplexed by these messages because I do not have any cron jobs that > invoke VBoxManage @reboot for any purpose whatsoever be it managing or > starting a virtual machine. > > I'm thinking these messages appeared after the upgrade to 4.3.8, but I > cannot be certain. > > Can anyone provide a context for these errors? > > -Tom > I've done a bit of digging and can offer a bit more info. I upgraded virtualbox-ose to 4.3.8 on 3/3 and did not see the errors until 3/11, so the upgrade itself did not introduce the errors. The 3/3 upgrade was my last upgrade of virtualbox-ose and I did not re-install it after that. However, on 3/11 I built a new -CURRENT (r263062). Something in that build seems to have introduced the errors. My previous -CURRENT (r262295) built on 3/8 did not have the errors. I'm still looking into this. -Tom