[SOLVED] Extension pack fails to install/delete

business_kid · 07-26-2018, 01:25 PM

Any ideas welcome on the following:

On a 5 year old Samsung NP350C-A05UK Laptop (i3, 6G ram, Panther Point chipset, Slackware64) The Virtualbox extension pack fails to install. I get

Quote:

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

The error is identical whether I try to delete the old extension pack, or install new. Both I tried within VirtualBox.
I get this trying to start a vm:

Code:

A virtual device is configured in the VM settings but the device implementation is missing.
A possible reason for this error is a missing extension pack. Note that as of VirtualBox 4.0, 
certain features (for example USB 2.0 support and remote desktop) are only available from an 
'extension pack' which must be downloaded and installed separately (VERR_PDM_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND).


Result Code: 
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: 
ConsoleWrap
Interface: 
IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}

I'm using 5.2.16

business_kid · 07-27-2018, 07:48 AM

The solution proved to be:

1. In /opt/VirtualBox, there's an 'uninstall.sh script. Run that with privileges. That cleans up miscellaneous bindings.
2. Get rid of leftovers with 'sudo rm -rf /opt/VirtualBox'
3. Install the .run file with privileges (On my system, a luser can't write to /opt)
4. Install the Extension pack with privileges.

A user can now run it and the VMs run. There's even a guest additions .iso there included with the run file. As long as the old one works for the existing guests . . . I want to stop this farting about and debugging.
That Python error proved to be insufficient privileges.