Virtualbox "Settings" don't show any window (FreeBSD-10 current)

Bernhard Fröhlich decke at bluelife.at
Wed Sep 25 18:49:53 UTC 2013


Sorry but I forgot one important thing - please rebuild the virtualbox-ose
port with debug option enabled.

Am 25.09.2013 16:35 schrieb "Miguel Clara" <miguelmclara at gmail.com>:
>
> Here it goes (I'm not sure if this is the expected output though, because
I see a "permission denied" there...
> The file permission for VirtualBox are odd, and if I change then it won't
run at all.
>
>
> % gdb /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox VirtualBox.core
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"amd64-marcel-freebsd".../usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: Permission
denied.
>
> Core was generated by `VirtualBox'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> #1 0x0000000800afd042 in ?? ()
> #2 0x0000000801dda9c0 in ?? ()
> #3 0x00007fffffffacf0 in ?? ()
> #4 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Bernhard Fröhlich <decke at freebsd.org>
wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Miguel C. <miguelmclara at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> >
>> > Alpha 2 is not an option, please see:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-September/044792.html
>> >
>> > However I've updated to r255788, recompiled and now I get a
Segmentation fault trying to run VirtualBox...var/messages only shows that
the process exited on signal 11... where else can I see more info?
>>
>> Signal 11 is SIGSEGV (segmentation violation) so a coredump and
stacktrace
>> would help. Since virtualbox is a suid root binary no coredump is
created per
>> default.
>>
>> You need to set:
>>
>> sysctl kern.sugid_coredump=1
>>
>> and then start virtualbox and let it crash. Then you should get a
coredump that
>> you can open with gdb and obtain a stacktrace.
>>
>> Something like:
>> gdb /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox VirtualBox.core
>> in the interactive prompt type: "backtrace" and send us the stacktrace.
>>
>> --
>> Bernhard Froehlich
>> http://www.bluelife.at/
>
>


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