shared-folders hangup in VBox installation of 13.10 beta1

[jamzen]

I guess the title says it all. It's the recent 4.2.18 release of VBox.

sudo mount -t vboxsf [sharename] [mountpoint]

completes without an error, and

df

shows the mount, but

ls [mountpoint]

hangs. Anybody else see this behavior? Find a fix?

[TheFu]

Verify that the correct version of the guest additions matches 100% to the VM host virtualbox release.
If in doubt, reinstall the guest additions and reboot the VM.

Sometimes a new kernel will not relink with the vbox guest additions automatically or we might forget to update them with the new vbox host version update. I know that I forget.

[jamzen]

Uh-huh, I've done that. Two or three times.

[TheFu]

Uh-huh, I've done that. Two or three times.

Seems like time to open a bug against the alpha code. Anything interesting in the logs to share?

[jamzen]

Seems like time to open a bug against the alpha code. Anything interesting in the logs to share?

Nothing in the logs on the 13.10 VM. Nothing odd in the [guestnode].xml under VB. Nothing in the host logs. Just the guest hangup at any attempt to access the shared mount.

How to open a bug? Against VirtualBox, or against Ubuntu 13.10 beta1?

Come to think of it, when this problem first showed up yesterday (anxious to try out the beta1), I was running VB 4.2.16. There was a thread on one of the VB forums: the shared-folder Guest Additions module wouldn't compile for me. That was 'fixed' in 4.2.18, but then we arrived at the problem I'm posting about.

I'm going to assume this is a problem in VB.

Thanks for your help.

[TheFu]

Let's step back for a second.

You are running an alpha version of Ubuntu and think that opening a bug against VB is correct?
I just had to ask.

[jamzen]

Uh, well, when you put it that way... .

How would I open a bug here against 13.10?

[TheFu]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs - google found it, BTW. Ubuntu Forums is not a bug reporting tool.

I take it you've not looked at my signature about running an LTS?

[jamzen]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs - google found it, BTW. Ubuntu Forums is not a bug reporting tool.

I take it you've not looked at my signature about running an LTS?

The VirtualBox 4.2.18 which I alluded to in my original posting is running under Ubuntu 12.04.

I test new Ubuntu releases on one or more of the dozen VM's I've configured. That's the context in which I started this thread.

[Morbius1]

May I ask why you are mounting something with a "sudo mount -t vboxsf [sharename] [mountpoint]" when it's already mounted for you at /media/sf_sharename.