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VirtualBox hangs after upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10

Posted: 23. Dec 2008, 01:49
by fimblo
I upgraded to 8.10 last week, and a perfectly functioning version of virtualbox suddenly stopped working. Typical :P

Here's the symptoms:
No menu entry (not virtualbox's fault, I know)
I try to start it using command 'VirtualBox' from a terminal, but it then just hangs- no output, no log, nothing.

When I run a ps -ef |grep -i box I get the following:

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fimblo   21276  6399 94 00:45 pts/0    00:00:06 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
fimblo   21289 21276  0 00:45 pts/0    00:00:00 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
fimblo   21296     1  2 00:45 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --automate
Unfortunately I dont know what version of VB I ran prior to upgrading.
Current state:
o I have VirtualBox 2.1 installed (non-free)
o I have removed the bridge, so an ifconfig returns only info on eth0 and lo0.

Can anyone help me?

EDIT: I forgot to say that I have two modules loaded:

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$ lsmod |grep -i vb
vboxnetflt             92040  0 
vboxdrv               118824  1 vboxnetflt

Posted: 23. Dec 2008, 16:18
by Sasquatch
Have you tried to install the Intrepid package? You upgraded from 8.04.1, so you also had that package installed. It's compile against the libraries available there, and Intrepid uses newer ones.