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Rebuild against latest X server

Bug #930324 reported by Alin Andrei
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
virtualbox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Felix Geyer

Bug Description

Installing virtualbox-guest-utils in an Ubuntu Precise guest results in a glitchy-looking desktop. Screenshot: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0MqyfWI5S_c/TzVdwp2tLGI/AAAAAAAAHtM/0nVByDM2eNk/s1600/virtualbox-guest-bug.png

Installing the Guest Additions manually works (see here: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/02/virtualbox-ubuntu-1204-guest-fixes.html ), so most probably, the virtualbox-guest-utils package in Precise needs to be rebuilt against latest X server to fix this.

Tags: patch precise
Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)
tags: added: precise
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Peter Meiser (meiser79) wrote :

The problem is not solved by a rebuild.

It's solved by adding a symlink: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/dri/vboxvideo_dri.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/vboxvideo_dri.so

The error message in Xorg.0.log shows before adding the symlink:

[ 2553.433] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/vboxvideo_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/vboxvideo_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

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Peter Meiser (meiser79) wrote :

This debdiff includes a solution to place the symlink in /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/dri

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "virtualbox_4.1.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1.debdiff" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch in the form of a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-sponsors team please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

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tags: added: patch
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Felix Geyer (debfx) wrote :

I have uploaded a slightly different fix to Debian that is compatible with non-multiarched mesa.
I'll sync it once it's published there.

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Felix Geyer (debfx)
status: New → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 4.1.8-dfsg-2

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virtualbox (4.1.8-dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Install vboxvideo_dri.so into the directory provided by the dri pkg-config
    file. (LP: #930324)

 -- Felix Geyer <email address hidden> Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:17:04 +0100

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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