Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (594 mails)

[Marco Calistri <marco.calistri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il giorno dom, 13/09/2009 alle 18.28 +0000, Jon Cosby ha scritto:
> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 14:14 -0300, Marco Calistri wrote:
> > Il giorno ven, 11/09/2009 alle 13.51 +0200, Michal Seben ha scritto:
> > > Marco Calistri wrote:
> > > > I mean the first of your comment: mouse pointer is unresponsive, so that
> > > > I am unable even to login.
> > > >
> > > > I also tried to use remote desktop function of VirtualBox (I am using
> > > > the Sun latest version by the way), thinking it could be the solution,
> > > > but again the pointer remains unresponsive.
> > > >
> > > > Currently I am downloading M7 DVD, to see if I can repair the 
> > > > installation.
> > > >
> > > > BR,
> > > >
> > > > Marco
> > > >
> > > >   
> > > hm ..  keyboard works ? if yes, go to console : ctrl+F1 and check less
> > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >
> > I could not verify if keyboard works, since the problem is blocking the
> > access from the very start (login to desktop environment).
> >
> > I've seen some errors on Xorg.0.log, related to Option "AutoAddDevices",
> > so I investigated further, but all the attempts were in vain, at least
> > on the "VirtualBox WinXP" host configuration.
> >
> > But same VirtualBox configuration is working well on this linux machine
> > which is the host system of "11.2 Milestone 7 guest".
> >
> > So at begin, I suspect some problems related to Windows driver problem,
> > by the fact that VirtualBox drivers are not Microsoft certified and they
> > went installed by forcing the installation.
>
> I'm not exactly clear, is it just 11.2 that's failing, or is it all
> guests? I had the same problem in M6 resulting from the HAL daemon not
> starting. Why it wasn't starting wasn't resolved, but updating the HAL
> package took care of it. Try booting to runlevel 3 and check to see if
> this is the case (ps ax | grep hal). To boot into runlevel 3, enter "3"
> in the boot options in the boot menu.
>
>
> Jon

Jon,

My 11.2 M7, both WinXp, and opensuse 11.1 VirtualBox host versions, are
guests Virtual Machines.

I will check the hal service state before to copy the working 11.2 M7
virtual disk (vdi) from Linux to Windows host, which represent
(hopefully) the easiest solution.

TKS,


-- 
Marco <amdturion>
Linux openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 - 2.6.31-rc9-7-default
GNOME 2.27.91 VirtualBox