timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed

iamwho · September 8, 2019, 5:11am

I just installed from Whonix-CLI-15.0.0.3.3.ova
I get spam on the current tty, 20 times after boot:
timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
I’m using VirtualBox 5.2.32 is that a problem?
It seems to know what time it is even without a network connection. So I’m not sure what it means but if it’s not supported the first time it probably won’t be supported the next 19 times

I’m using VirtualBox because that’s what the download page points to but I’m thinking of switching to KVM.

Patrick_mobile · September 8, 2019, 5:30am

https://ibb.co/C16QCZt

This can be safely ignored.
What’s happening is that virtualbox-guest-utils is asking VirtualBox for the time. Which is blocked as per Whonix default VirtualBox VM settings.
Previously this was disabled inside the VM too through pacakge https://github.com/Whonix/vbox-disable-timesync but this was recently disabled since it causes more issues than it does good. This error message we have to live with but it doesn’t break anything.

Patrick · September 10, 2019, 6:33am

2 posts were split to a new topic: Whonixcheck no longer Writing to tty1

rob75 · September 10, 2019, 9:43pm

I also get this. Thanks for informing it is safe.

However, how can it be suppressed? It spams my terminal prompt and I sometimes use it.

rob75 · September 10, 2019, 9:59pm

I guess this.

Patrick · September 11, 2019, 7:55am

Try this.

sudo str_replace "start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/VBoxService" "start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/VBoxService -- --disable-timesync" "/etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-utils"