[SOLVED] Upgrade V-box from 4.1.8 to 4.2.6 Extenstion pack won't upgrade.

camorri · 01-29-2013, 02:55 PM

As the title says, the extension pack will not upgrade.
I get the following error.

Code:

Failed to install the Extension Pack /home/cliff/download/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.6-82870.vbox-extpack.

The installer failed with exit code 127: Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current controlling terminal for the process (`/dev/tty'): No such device or address.

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: ExtPackManager
Interface: IExtPackManager {3295e6ce-b051-47b2-9514-2c588bfe7554}

Thoughts on how I fix this?

camorri · 01-29-2013, 04:51 PM

O.K. I fixed it. However, I don't like what I had to do to fix it.

I tried to remove the old extension pack, and that failed with the following error:

Quote:

Failed to uninstall the Extension Pack Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack.

The installer failed with exit code 127: Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current controlling terminal for the process (`/dev/tty'): No such device or address.

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: ExtPackManager
Interface: IExtPackManager {3295e6ce-b051-47b2-9514-2c588bfe7554}

At this point it appeared I was stuck with the old extension pack with the new version of v-box.

To fix this, I launched v-box as root. I went to File-->Preferences-->Extensions and upgraded the extensions pack running v-box as root. That worked. I then launched my Xp.vdi file, and all seemed well. Closed everything down, and tried to launch v-box as regular user.

That generated more errors. The short story is root now owned the XP.vdi file. I chowned in back to my user, and all is working now.

I don't understand why I could not upgrade the extensions pack. The version of the extension pack is an exact match to the new version of v-box.

Hope this helps someone else.

gilead · 01-29-2013, 05:29 PM

I haven't seen that error - does the information here help?

camorri · 01-29-2013, 06:18 PM

This looks like the same error. I got it installed by running v-box as root. For the record, this was on a Slackware 13.37 64 bit system.

From that link:

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Therefore the GUI will try to find gksu, kdesudo or just xterm + su to get admin permissions for installing the extension pack.

I don't have gksu, since Slackware no longer ships with Gnome. I do have kdesu, but not kdesudo. I can get root privileges with xterm and then su to root. However, what ever way the installer tries to get root, so the extension pack can be installed fails on Slackware 13.37.

Quote:

The workaround is simply to run /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 manually before attempting to install the extension pack.

This won't work on Slackware, there is no Gnome.

gilead · 01-29-2013, 07:50 PM

Thanks for posting the extra information - I'm glad you got it working anyway. If it's any use, I ran the following steps (as root) for my last upgrade:

Code:

VBoxManage extpack uninstall "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack"
sh VirtualBox-4.2.4-81684-Linux_amd64.run uninstall
sh VirtualBox-4.2.6-82870-Linux_amd64.run install
VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.6-82870.vbox-extpack