Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#16813 new defect
/dev/tty: No such device or address
| Reported by: | kaisbe | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest additions | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.22 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I've got an error message thrown by VBox->Preferences->Extensions, whenever trying to upgrade the VBox Extension Package:
"The installer failed with exit code 127: Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current controlling terminal for the process (`/dev/tty'): No such device or address."
This seems little bit weird since /dev/tty is part of the system:
ls /dev/tty /dev/tty
I need some help regarding this issue.
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Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 7 years ago
by , 7 years ago
| Attachment: | VBoxSVC.log added |
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comment:2 by , 7 years ago
This issue gets solved after installing policykit, so that VirtualBox asks for password and gets the privileges for updating the extension package. Yet, the message "/dev/tty: No such device or address" is wrong, so I'm considering it as a bug - I think that VBox should show "Error: policykit is not installed" instead, when it is not installed.


Please attach the VBoxSVC.log file after you tried this upgrade. You can find this file in ~/.VirtualBox/VBoxSVC.log or ~/.config/VirtualBox/VBoxSVC.log