dbus 1.6.8 breaks VBox :-(

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com>wrote:

>
>
> On 2013-04-14 20:26, Michael Butler wrote:
>
> > I rebuild all modules
> as part of any upgrade .. On the other hand, I'm running this on an
> Intel T-2300 (x86)
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Apr 14, 2013, at
> 20:26, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 14 Apr
> 2013, Michael Butler wrote:
> >>
> >>> Apologies if this has been
> mentioned before but the update from dbus 1.4.14 to 1.6.8 breaks the
> "file open" dialogue when trying to attach a new ISO file to a VM for
> installation. The only "fix" I've found so far is to revert dbus to
> 1.4.14 :-(
> >> Just tried, and it works here on amd64 9-stable with
> virtualbox-ose-4.2.6. Could you have updated the operating system but
> not yet rebuilt the VirtualBox kernel module?
> >
> >
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> I am seeing the exact same
> issue on AMD64 9-stable with virtualbox-ose. Others are reporting
> similar issues on the KDE mailing list as well. I've seen this mentioned
> on other websites affecting linux too.
>
> Rusty Nejdl
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Just to add one more data point, i just created a new VM and booted the ISO
with no problem.
9.1-STABLE-amd64 of Jan 27. VB 4.2.6 dbus-1.6.8.
===> The following configuration options are available for
virtualbox-ose-4.2.6:
     DBUS=on: D-Bus IPC system support
     DEBUG=off: Debug symbols, additional logs and assertions
     GUESTADDITIONS=off: Build with Guest Additions
     NLS=off: Native Language Support
     PULSEAUDIO=off: PulseAudio sound server support
     QT4=on: Build with QT4 Frontend
     UDPTUNNEL=on: Build with UDP tunnel support
     VDE=off: Build with VDE support
     VNC=on: Build with VNC support
     WEBSERVICE=off: Build Webservice
     X11=on: X11 (graphics) support
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com