FC10 Help - Cant Get VBox to start properly

[dave226uk]

Hi all, hope you can help.

Until recently I have been running Virtualbox on my FC10 x64 machine flawlessly, however for application reasons, I needed to reinstall the OS with the x86 version.

When I have downloaded the fedora version of VirtualBox, and installed it, tried to recover my XP.vdi, and it crashed, requesting DKMS. Which I then installed using yum.

I have now installed, removed and reinstalled virtualbox a few times, and it tells me all is ok. But when I try to run it, it just hangs in the system monitor without actually displaying anything.

Can anyone help, this is frustrating?

Thanks in advance

[dave226uk]

OK, after a frantic search, I have figured it.

So Fedora 10 currently updates to libX11 1.5, which screws with some gnome apps - VirtualBox and amsn in my case, and you need to downgrade libX11 to get ti to work. Like so.. (i386)

su
yumdownloader libX11-1.1.4 libX11-devel-1.1.4
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.i386.rpm libX11-devel-1.1.4-5.fc10.i386.rpm

then, check you have downgraded:

rpm -qa | grep -i libX11

which should now return :

libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.i386
libX11-devel-1.1.4-5.fc10.i386

then, hit <ctrl>+<alt>+<backspace> to restart X (or reboot)

Away you go, apps working.

This worked for me, and is a mash of the various solutions I have found. So please don't shoot if it doesn't work in your case.