Nov. 18, 2008
Installing Intrepid once again broke the USB support in Virtualbox. If your getting the following error, the next few lines are for you.
The previous fix for Hardy should no longer be used as the mountdevsubfs.sh looks different in Intrepid. The following solution was proposed in a ubuntu forum and looks as if it does the job. Simply add the following line at the end of your /etc/fstab file:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0
Make sure that your user is member or the group with gid 46 or adjust the above line. Once added to fstab mount the file system using:
sudo mount /proc/bus/usb
Posted by patrik in Ubuntu | No Comments
Nov. 18, 2008
I upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid on my work laptop, a few weeks ago. Apart from ssh-keys not working through the keymanager (again) and Firefox starting up with the window title outside of the screen I’d say it all went pretty smooth. I had some problems with our backup solution, but it turned out that it had nothing to do with the upgrade.
I solved the keyring problem by deleting the .gnome2 folder in my home directory. This could most likely be solved a lot easier but I didn’t have the time to dig deeper at the time. Changes have been made to the Networkmanager which now supports mobile internet connections. So far I have not successfully been able to connect to my provider using this new functionality so I’m sticking with the wvdial method.
A really annoying new thing with the network manager is that it shows all my interfaces with static ip-addresses from /etc/network/interfaces. So what? Well if you’re running a lot of systems with dedicated “Host interfaces” in Virtualbox, I guess you see what I mean. As a bonus, each time I attach the network cable it tries to bring up one of those virtual interface with a static ip instead of the eth0 interface… Luckily I’m using 3g and wi-fi a lot, otherwise I would have to face facts and fix the problem 
Hopefully something that can be configured better. I haven’t bothered to look at any documentation, things should just work . Perhaps an alternateive strategy by dynamically creating interfaces when starting Virtual boxes, leaving the interfaces file and ifconfig output cleaner.