Will try this, thank you Jens!
On 25 February 2015 07:11:54 GMT+00:00, Jens Thomas <jtho...@ackbit.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>i installed the SDK yesterday the first time. I have preinstalled VBox
>4.3.22 and run into the same issue: Booting the VM end up in a black
>screen, just showing some messages:
>
>tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
>systemd-fsck[62]: system: clean, 23245/262144 files, 244244/1048575
>blocks
>piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address uninitialized - upgrade
>BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
>
>My quick and dirty workaround is to ssh into the VM and sudo reboot the
>machine, then it will start without problems. I can see the same
>warnings, but it won't pause. This procedure was reproducible multiple
>times.
>
> Jens
>
>
>
>Am 24.02.2015 um 16:13 schrieb Cathal Garvey:
>> Hi Jarkko,
>> journal.txt sent off-list.
>>
>> I am using 4.3.22, that's why it's annoying me. I'm aware that
>> Debian's repos are very outdated ("stable") for user-facing
>> applications like browsers, VMs, office, etc., so I downloaded
>> directly from VirtualBox.org.
>>
>> Thanks for your time, hoping some solution can be found. The journal
>> output looks informative about the failure to launch a user-session
>> but it's not a system I understand enough to fix, nor do I have time
>> to spare to learn the inner workings of SystemD just to get a VM
>> going. :)
>>
>> On 24/02/15 14:50, Jarkko Lehtoranta wrote:
>>> On 23/02/15 14:14, Cathal (Phone) wrote:
>>>> Thanks for your help Ritesh! Hopefully some digging into less
>obvious
>>>> logs might reveal the cause. It's a pity that VB images aren't as
>>>> "plug and play" as commonly held. :/
>>> Which Virtualbox version are you using? Please note that some Linux
>>> distributions have very old Virtualbox versions in their package
>>> repositories. For example the Debian Wheezy package repository
>contains
>>> Virtualbox 4.1.18, which was originally released in 2012. So I would
>>> first suggest trying out the Virtualbox 4.3.22 from virtualbox.org:
>>> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads.
>>>
>>> If you have the same issue with Virtualbox 4.3.22 and can SSH into
>the
>>> emulator, could you share the system journal output (sudo journalctl
>>> --system > journal.txt) of the emulator?
>>>
>>> -Jarkko
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 23 February 2015 11:55:39 GMT+00:00, Ritesh Patel
><ri...@msn.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:40:46 +0000
>>>> > From: cathalgar...@cathalgarvey.me
>>>> > To: devel@lists.sailfishos.org
>>>> > Subject: Re: [SailfishDevel] Error starting VM
>>>> >
>>>> > Just bumping this one last time to see if anyone else has
>shared
>>>> this
>>>> > problem and found a fix.
>>>> >
>>>> > To recap, I'm using the latest SDK and the current "generic
>>>> linux"
>>>> > version of VirtualBox, and the "acceleration" pane in
>"system" in
>>>> > Virtualbox is greyed out, so I cannot see any options there
>>>> (someone
>>>> > else suggested acceleration might be to blame).
>>>> >
>>>> > The problem is in booting the emulator VM. It displays
>several
>>>> boot
>>>> > messages, the last of which is an error, then pauses there. I
>>>> *can*
>>>> > successfully SSH in but the runlevel is indeterminate, and
>>>> things seem
>>>> > to behave normally for a console linux session.
>>>> >
>>>> > The message s displayed at VM boot are:
>>>> >
>>>> > [ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
>>>> > systemd-fsck[62]: system: clean, 23245/262144 files,
>>>> 244244/1048575 blocks
>>>> > [ 12.297269] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address
>>>> > uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
>>>> >
>>>> > Any help that can be provided greatly appreciated. I'm using
>the
>>>> latest
>>>> > VirtualBox on 64-bit Debian and the latest SDK, so it seems
>>>> strange that
>>>> > it doesn't launch. I'm interested in Sailfish and strongly
>>>> considering
>>>> > buying a Jolla, but I wanted to play around in the SDK
>first..
>>>> >
>>>> > On 16/02/15 11:19, Cathal Garvey wrote:
>>>> > > Neither SDK nor Virtual machine are running. If I close
>>>> Virtualbox and
>>>> > > re-open, the option is still greyed out. Perhaps my system
>>>> doesn't
>>>> > > support acceleration?
>>>> > >
>>>> > > On 16/02/15 11:08, k...@foder.dk wrote:
>>>> &g t; >>> That pane is greyed out in Virtualbox, for me. :-/
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> The SDK must not be started, you cannot change the
>settings
>>>> while the
>>>> > >> image are running!
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> /Kim
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >>> Hi,
>>>> > >>> That pane is greyed out in Virtualbox, for me. :-/
>>>> > >>>
>>>> > >>> On 16/02/15 10:58, Chris Walker wrote:
>>>> > >>>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:16:53 +0100
>>>> > >>>> k...@foder.dk wrote:
>>>> > >>>>
>>>> > >>>>>> This application failed to start because it could not
>>>> find or load
>>>> > >>>>>> the Qt platform plugin "xcb".
>>>> > >>>>>
>>>> > >>>>> I had this problem too, I think I had to disable
>something
>>>> on the SDK
>>>> > >>>>> in VirtualBox, I'm not sure but I think it was
>VT-x/AMD-V
>>>> under
>>>> > >>>>> system / acceleration.
>>>> > >>>>
>>>> > >>>> Thanks.
>>>> > >>>>
>>>> > >>>> I've unticked that in the Emulator and that now runs.
>>>>
>>>> The error messages displayed, ie.:
>>>>
>>>> > [ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
>>>> > systemd-fsck[62]: system: clean, 23245/262144 files,
>>>> 244244/1048575 blocks
>>>> > [ 12.297269] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address
>>>> > uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
>>>>
>>>> don't appear to have any bearing on your issue [1][2].
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ritesh Patel
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>>
>>>>
>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18055593/how-to-solve-fast-tsc-calibration-failed-issue-that-occurs-on-boot-in-virtualbox
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [2]
>>>>
>>>>
>http://fintastical.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/virtualbox-piix4smbus-error.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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