Call for tester: VirtualBox 3.1.2 for FreeBSD

Eirik Øverby ltning at anduin.net
Tue Jan 5 09:24:34 UTC 2010


On 5. jan. 2010, at 10.12, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:

> On Tue, January 5, 2010 9:18 am, Eirik Øverby wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 28. des. 2009, at 00.24, Martin Wilke wrote:
>> 
>>> - Install new port:
>>>   # cd ../virtualbox-ose-kmod && make install clean
>>>   # cd ../virtualbox-ose && make install clean
>> 
>> At this point, the install fails like thus:
>> 
>> running install_egg_info
>> Removing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi-1.0-py2.6.egg-info
>> Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi-1.0-py2.6.egg-info
>> (cd
>> /root/vbox/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-3.1.2_OSE/out/freebsd.amd64/release/bin/sdk/bindings/xpcom/python
>> && /bin/sh -c '(/usr/bin/find -d $0 $2 | /usr/bin/cpio -dumpl $1
>>> /dev/null  2>&1) &&  /usr/sbin/chown -R root:wheel $1 &&  /usr/bin/find
>> -d $0 $2 -type d -exec chmod 755 $1/{} \; &&  /usr/bin/find -d $0 $2 -type
>> f -exec chmod 444 $1/{} \;' -- "*" /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages)
>> /usr/local/bin/python2.6 -mcompileall
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xpcom/
>> Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xpcom/ ...
>> Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xpcom/client ...
>> Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xpcom/server ...
>> pw: group 'vboxusers' already exists
>> Adding group "vboxusers" failed...
>> *** Error code 1
>> 
>> Stop in /root/vbox/virtualbox-ose.
>> *** Error code 1
>> 
>> Stop in /root/vbox/virtualbox-ose.
>> 
>> The vboxusers group does indeed exist:
>> vboxusers:*:920:
>> but has no users. Adding myself changes nothing.
> 
> Looks a bit weird. The install script only needs and creates a vboxusers
> group so that it can install the files with the correct ownership. But it

Reason found. Nscd was running, and somehow had not updated its cache for some reason. Restarted it, and now it works.

Sorry about the noise.

/Eirik


> checks first if the group exists and that check seems to fail for an
> unknown reason. Could you please send back the output of the following 3
> commands? (as root)
> 
> pw group show vboxusers; echo $?
> 
> pw groupadd vboxusers -g 920
> 
> grep vbox /etc/group
> 
> 
>> Should I install the current version from ports first, before trying to
>> ugprade to this snapshot?
> 
> I think that should not change anything because the install script did not
> change for a long time.
> 
> My guess at the moment is that something in your /etc/group is
> inconsistent or wrong so that the tools get confused.
> 
> -- 
> Bernhard Fröhlich
> http://www.bluelife.at/
> 
> 



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