Error on Ubuntu 8.04.2 - Could not open network socket

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josir
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Error on Ubuntu 8.04.2 - Could not open network socket

Post by josir »

Hi folks, how can I fix this ?
Last week VirtualBox was working fine and now I got his error:

josir@linux7:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.2"

josir@linux7:~$ VirtualBox
Qt WARNING: Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket
Wrong mode (42700) of '/tmp/.vbox-josir-ipc'.
Wrong mode (42700) of '/tmp/.vbox-josir-ipc'.

And on the QT dialog, I receive:
NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0x80040154)
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Post by Sasquatch »

Did you get any updates recently? Maybe someting updated your system and broke VB. Try a reinstall.
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josir
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[SOLVED] Error on Ubuntu 8.04.2 - Could not open network soc

Post by josir »

Thanks for replying Sasquatch.

I found the same problem on Bug Track and I got it solved.

This is a /tmp permission problem. To fix it, you should issue those command as root:

chown root:root /tmp
chmod ug-s /tmp
chmod 1777 /tmp

and then remove any .vbox-*-ipc directory.
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