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virtualbox-ose package

Virtualbox menus items are disabled except close

Bug #753119 reported by Andy Barilla on 2011-04-07

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This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

Running VirtualBox OSE 4.0.4 in Natty, the menus are all disabled when I have a VM activated. They are all visible but disabled except for close. I have the proprietary package installed. 2 of my VMs are copied from my Maverick install and one was created from a Ova package.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: virtualbox-ose 4.0.4-dfsg-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 6 19:38:34 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: virtualbox-ose
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Andy Barilla (andybarilla) wrote on 2011-04-07:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LsMod.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VirtualBoxOse.DpkgList.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VirtualBoxOse.ModInfo.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Gábor Pápai (gaborgabor) wrote on 2011-04-10:

#2

This bug also affects i386 non-ose VirtualBox 4.04. (os: uptodate 11.04; upgraded from 10.xx)
Remark:
Not all menus are disabled, the help menu group is enabled, but the other 2 groups' items are disabled (except "exit" menuitem).

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areteichi (areteichi) wrote on 2011-04-15:

#3

Same here. This happens when the guest OS is running.

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Zordid (zordid-gmx) wrote on 2011-04-15:

#4

Same here. Even though menu items are disabled, the ones with hotkey can be invoked using the hotkey, it's only the menu that does not work!

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Andy Barilla (andybarilla) wrote on 2011-04-15:

#5

The functionality works fine as well when using the popup menus on the icons along the lower right of the window.

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areteichi (areteichi) wrote on 2011-04-23:

#6

I don't see any status update here, but I just received a package update for VirtualBox (4.0.4-dfsg-1ubuntu4), and it looks like the menu is back!

The problem seems to remain, however, as menu failed to appear after I had full screened the Guest OS window and then reverted back to normal size. No menu showed up then. I don't know if I need to file a separate bug report for this.

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