VBoxManage errors at boot

[Thomas Hoffmann]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Thomas Hoffmann <trh411 at gmail.com> 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