Wednesday, January 22, 2020, 6:43:48 AM, Michael Käppler wrote:
> Am 21.01.2020 um 20:44 schrieb Peter Toye: >> Re: Looking for help in configuring LilyDev in VirtualBox >> This time after the reboot I got the same result. No sharing of >> clipboard, no more processes. Tried closing VBox and restarting it, >> but same result. > Try to start the client manually and see what happens: > /usr/bin/VBoxClient --clipboard >> >> There's one slight oddity: often (but not always) when booting the >> LilyDev guest I get an error message - a bit too long to copy the text >> so here's a screenshot: >> >> I don't know if it's significant. It doesn't change the clipboard >> behaviour. > From time to time, this happens on my machine, too. > I thought it would be a problem specific to my > combination of VirtualBox > version / host os > and guest os, but if you encounter the same problem it could be a > general issue. It's not important as long as it's not significant. I thought it might be affecting the boot process. >> It's possible that my hamfisted attempts to install LilyDev as a guest >> without all the instructions has screwed something up. I could start >> again tomorrow using the instructions you sent me and see if it makes >> any difference. > Yes, I would suggest that you start from scratch again. I made a new guest machine using your instructions. There are a few issues here: Step 3: the file names are LilyDev-1-debian-vm and the raw fle is .iso not .raw Step11: I got an error from the command: [dev@LilyDev:~]$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-layout [sudo] password for dev: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline dpkg-query: package 'keyboard-layout' is not installed and no information is available Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: keyboard-layout is not installed [dev@LilyDev:~]$ So I used the mechanism in the current CG Step 8 to change the keyboard - probably a better idea and more user-friendly. Unless, of course, the clipboard is working. After all that I tried your idea of starting the clipboard manually - it worked!! Or I'd never have managed to get the above text right :) So the basic question is: why isn't it starting up? I used to be a Solaris sysadmin, but that ended 20 years ago and my copy of Frisch is long gone. > Best regards, > Michael Best regards, Peter
