Weird random characters when try to run VirtualBox [solved]

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » 25. Jan 2009, 05:41

I installed VirtualBox on Fedora Core 9 x64 and ran into a few dependancy issues but managed to brute force

and find the right ones which only turned out to be these two:

yum install qt4
yum install qt4-devel

Then it installed.

However it wont start now. This is the error I get when I try to start it:

[root@extsrv virtualbox]# VirtualBox
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed:

/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so: undefined symbol: _ZN10QStatusBar9showEventEP10QShowEvent
[root@extsrv virtualbox]#

Have no idea what that means, it's just a bunch of random chars. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Oh and I just found in the FAQ it talks about that and I have to install these packages:

fontconfig
fontconfig-config
libfontconfig

First one is already installed and the first two are not available. (get yum error saying it's not available)

Post by **Sasquatch** » 25. Jan 2009, 16:28

This error has come around pretty often. Please use google to search for a part of your error. It should provide you with the other topics that mention this error. The FAQ only lists one possible solution. It hasn't been updated with the other possible solutions.

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » 25. Jan 2009, 19:26

Did not find much on google about it. Most are unrelated to my distro and it seems this error has different variations.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 25. Jan 2009, 21:01

Check this google query: http://www.google.com/search?q=supR3Har ... U&filter=0
It should have one of the topics with the answer.

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » 25. Jan 2009, 21:27

Is there a way to get these packages on fedora 9?

-fontconfig-config
-libfontconfig

I can't seem to find anything. All research leads to debian. I'm wondering if those packages are what my problem is, I dont have them.

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » 25. Jan 2009, 22:48

I did a yum upgrade as well as installed GNome desktop environment

yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

It updated my kernel to 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.x86_64.

Now it loads within the GUI though I'm hoping I can get it working in the background where I can connect to a vm any time, but I'll do some research on that. At least I'm a step further now.