[arch-general] VirtualBox crashes when adding choose existing to SATA controller

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:29:08 +0200, Peter Bauer wrote:
>I guess I have to use some Command line to get the machine up again...

Take a look at the log files.

The paths are not necessarily those

.VirtualBox/VBoxSVC.log*
VirtualBox\ VMs/*/Logs/VBox.log*

Regards,
Ralf

PS:

I already wrote a script to backup and restore from an older backup,
all settings and the guest, if something fails. VBox is easy to use,
but regarding reliability a PITA. Sometimes it takes very long to repair
something broken and sometimes it's impossible. Restoring from a backup
usually is the better way to go.

Btw. regarding to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50120 I stay with
5.0.24.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q virtualbox
virtualbox 5.0.24-1
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ objdump -p /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/* 2>/dev/null|grep libvpx
  NEEDED               libvpx.so.3
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql libvpx | grep so
libvpx /usr/lib/libvpx.so
libvpx /usr/lib/libvpx.so.4
libvpx /usr/lib/libvpx.so.4.0
libvpx /usr/lib/libvpx.so.4.0.0
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -hl /lib/libvpx.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 Aug  1 19:41 /lib/libvpx.so -> libvpx.so.4.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 Jan 16  2016 /lib/libvpx.so.3 -> libvpx.so.3.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 Jan 16  2016 /lib/libvpx.so.3.0 -> libvpx.so.3.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.4M Jan 16  2016 /lib/libvpx.so.3.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 Aug  1 19:41 /lib/libvpx.so.4 -> libvpx.so.4.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 Aug  1 19:41 /lib/libvpx.so.4.0 -> libvpx.so.4.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.3M Aug  1 19:41 /lib/libvpx.so.4.0.0