Good day everybody,
I am using Whonix 14 on Windows 10 mounted on Oracle VM Virtualbox.
While starting both the Workstation & the Gateway I get on both these alerts :
[FAILED] Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils.
Here are the screenshots of both the Workstation & the Gateway :
In addition, I would like to point out that I’am using an up to date VirtualBox machine (ver 5.2.18 r124319 (Qt5.6.2) so is the VM VirtualBox Extension Pack.
What importance should I give to this [FAILED] start up of “guest utils” ?
Any idea ?
Thanks and best regards.
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Patrick
September 18, 2018, 9:05am
#3
Anything that doesn’t work as expected?
Output of…?
sudo systemctl status virtualbox-guest-utils
sudo systemctl restart virtualbox-guest-utils
sudo systemctl status virtualbox-guest-utils
sudo journalctl -u virtualbox-guest-utils | cat
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On my side, everything seems to work very well but I have not tested all the possibilities of the distribution. I am going/learning slowly but surely
I launched the command lines one after the other and here are the outputs :
user@host:~$ sudo systemctl status virtualbox-guest-utils
● virtualbox-guest-utils.service - Virtualbox guest utils
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/virtualbox-guest-utils.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-09-18 10:26:04 UTC; 11min ago
Process: 596 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-utils start (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
sep 18 10:26:03 host systemd[1]: Starting Virtualbox guest utils...
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils.
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Unit entered failed state.
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
user@host:~$ sudo systemctl restart virtualbox-guest-utils
Job for virtualbox-guest-utils.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status virtualbox-guest-utils.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
user@host:~$
user@host:~$ sudo systemctl status virtualbox-guest-utils
● virtualbox-guest-utils.service - Virtualbox guest utils
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/virtualbox-guest-utils.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-09-18 10:39:31 UTC; 45s ago
Process: 2596 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-utils start (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: Starting Virtualbox guest utils...
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils.
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Unit entered failed state.
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
user@host:~$ sudo journalctl -u virtualbox-guest-utils | cat
-- Logs begin at Tue 2018-09-18 10:25:54 UTC, end at Tue 2018-09-18 10:40:45 UTC. --
sep 18 10:26:03 host systemd[1]: Starting Virtualbox guest utils...
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils.
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Unit entered failed state.
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: Starting Virtualbox guest utils...
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils.
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Unit entered failed state.
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
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ef86
September 18, 2018, 12:38pm
#5
Dear Patrick, my results are exactly the same like Cottonwoodhills.
ef86
Patrick
October 1, 2018, 11:29am
#6
[VirtualBox] [FAILED] Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils.https://phabricator.whonix.org/T848
Minor. I skip technical explanations to safe time. In short: harness; ignore this; will be fixed with next upgrade of vbox-disable-timesync package.
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Ok @Patrick , thank you for coming back to us and for your feedback.
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ef86
October 7, 2018, 1:40am
#8
Thank you very much Patrick!
ef86
Quick update : [VirtualBox] [FAILED] Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils. message disappeared with last upgrade of the system.
Topic can be closed.
Thanks again for your great job !
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