gui won't start - error while loading shared libraries

zootal · Post by **zootal** » 17. Dec 2008, 21:47

I can't get the gui to start:

/VirtualBox: error while loading shared libraries: libcap.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm not quite sure how to resolve this.

Slamd64 12.1
ATI 3870 w/ati proprietary drivers
KDE
VB 2.1.0 64bit amd version

fastie81 · Post by **fastie81** » 17. Dec 2008, 21:51

Same Problem here..
Fedora 10 64bit
same error
"error while loading shared libraries: libcap.so.1"

Post by **Sasquatch** » 17. Dec 2008, 22:17

You need to install the libcap1 package. I have libcap1 and libcap2 installed on my XUbuntu 8.10 32 bit system.

fastie81 · Post by **fastie81** » 17. Dec 2008, 22:55

On Fedora we don't have a libcap1 and 2
We only got libcap and I have that installed.
I have also installed libcaptury package but that also has not worked.

fastie81 · Post by **fastie81** » 17. Dec 2008, 23:21

Ok got this working..
you would need to have libcap installed..
Now on my 64bit vesion I needed to put a link in

ln -s /lib64/libcap.so.2.10 /lib64/libcap.so.1
Then it worked..

fastie81 · Post by **fastie81** » 18. Dec 2008, 01:36

[quote="fastie81"]Ok got this working..
you would need to have libcap installed..
Now on my 64bit vesion I needed to put a link in

ln -s /lib64/libcap.so.2.10 /lib64/libcap.so.1
Then it worked..[/quote]

slycordinator · Post by **slycordinator** » 20. Dec 2008, 19:25

fastie81 wrote:Ok got this working..
you would need to have libcap installed..
Now on my 64bit vesion I needed to put a link in

ln -s /lib64/libcap.so.2.10 /lib64/libcap.so.1
Then it worked..

That's a kluge at best.

libcap1 and libcap2 use different abi's.

wilcal · Post by **wilcal** » 4. Jan 2009, 01:57

I have a Mandriva 2009.0 system with exactly this same error:

"VirtualBox: error while loading shared libraries: libcap.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I installed using: VirtualBox-2.1.0-41146-Linux_x86.run

previously I was using: VirtualBox-2.0.6-39760-Linux_x86.run
and that was running just fine. I would expect that this serious install
error will be corrected in the next release. When would you expect
that to be? Has it been reported as a bug?

wilcal · Post by **wilcal** » 4. Jan 2009, 02:30

I've been able to drop back to:

VirtualBox-2.0.6-39760-Linux_x86.run

and that runs just fine.

jerry1091 · Post by **jerry1091** » 5. Jan 2009, 04:21

I too have Mandriva 2009 64 and had the same issue.

I symlinked the /lib64/libcap.so.1 to /opt/VirtualBox-2.1.0/libcap.so.1

Works like a champ.

Hope this helps

wilcal · Post by **wilcal** » 5. Jan 2009, 06:08

Thanks all for the feedback. Good solutions all but this
is a very important application and should install cleanly.
It's not a Mandriva problem. The issue belongs to Sun/VirtualBox.

JWSmythe · Post by **JWSmythe** » 21. Jan 2009, 18:26

I ran into this today also. The fix was easy.

Slamd64
VirtualBox-2.1.0-41146-Linux_amd64

Code: Select all

cd /usr/src/
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap1/libcap-1.97.tar.gz
tar xvpzf libcap-1.97.tar.gz
cd libcap-1.97
make
make install

Now VirtualBox will run.

I didn't find a recent package for libcap. The kludge that I saw for using libcap2 as libcap1 is probably a bad idea, but I guess it worked. Since this is a required package, it should have been tested for by the installer, and/or included with the package (IMHO)

wilcal · Post by **wilcal** » 21. Jan 2009, 21:37

From another thread:

"2.1.2 is due out very soon"

hopefully the new release will repair this issue.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 22. Jan 2009, 22:47

New version is released and has the fix not to depend on libcap.1.so.