Pamac update and VirtualBox

[maycne.sonahoz]

@chameau

Issue 1: For a about 2 months I noticed that in the shut-down window, the ‘Shut-Down’ button is Red? as in the attached screenshot:

It does not seem to have any effect on the buttons functionality?
This issue has not been resolved.

Looks like normal Cinnamon theming to me…

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@chameau

Issue 2: During the last few updates, I got an error message that said “Unable to lock database and failed to synchronize databases” (may not be the exact words) but the updates still proceeded as if nothing was wrong? A google search lead me to a previous post on this forum, and the solution was to run ‘Pamac update --force-refresh’ I run that command and it looked like a LOT of apps got updated! some 700Mb or so.

So… resolved?

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@chameau

Issue 3: Windows VM ‘Aborted’?? It was working just fine before I decided to run the update command. Back to google and I tried a few suggestions. Basically just changing some of the VM settings. The one that worked was to drop the USB controller setting from 3.0 to 1.1 After that Windows VM started OK, but a pop up window suggested to update the ‘Guest Addition’ (There was no such suggestion prior to running the above command) I proceeded with the install/update of the Guest Addition, but to my surprise I can no longer set the USB controller to 3.0 (one of the function of the guest addition?)

VirtualBox -- USB 2 and 3 not selectable

In the USB settings, USB controller is hard-enabled, I can’t untick it. And it is set to USB 1.1 I cannot select USB 2 or USB 3. It seems that this happened when I updated the Extension Pack to 6.1.36-1 VB version VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 6.1.34 r150636.    ~  inxi -F   9s  System: Host: shmuel-manjaro Kernel: 5.18.12-3-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME v: 42.3.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux Machine: …

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