Installation VirtualBox fails at 'Validating Packages'

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Tjalling
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Joined: 8. May 2012, 23:36

Installation VirtualBox fails at 'Validating Packages'

Post by Tjalling »

Dear everyone,

Unfortunately I do not have much information to provide surrounding my problem, as my installation of VirtualBox fails already at one of the first steps: validating packages. I've tried both 4.1.15 as well as 4.1.14. I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.2.

If the installer allows for the creation of a log, please tell me how to do so.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

EDIT: I found the installation log. It's displayed below:

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May  8 23:32:31 Tjallings-MacBook-Air installd[305]: PackageKit: ----- Begin install -----
May  8 23:32:31 Tjallings-MacBook-Air installd[305]: PackageKit: Failed to unarchive staged request at /var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/Cleanup At Startup/PKInstallSandbox-tmp/Staging/RequestKeyed
May  8 23:33:01 Tjallings-MacBook-Air installd[305]: PackageKit: Install Failed: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=512 "“PKInstallSandbox-tmp” couldn’t be removed." UserInfo=0x10cc2d670 {NSFilePath=/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/Cleanup At Startup/PKInstallSandbox-tmp, NSUserStringVariant=(
	    Remove
	), NSUnderlyingError=0x10cc15ab0 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Input/output error"} {
	    NSFilePath = "/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/Cleanup At Startup/PKInstallSandbox-tmp";
	    NSUnderlyingError = "Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=5 \"The operation couldn\U2019t be completed. Input/output error\"";
	    NSUserStringVariant =     (
	        Remove
	    );
	}
May  8 23:33:04 Tjallings-MacBook-Air Installer[293]: Install failed: The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
May  8 23:33:04 Tjallings-MacBook-Air Installer[293]: Displaying 'Install Failed' UI.
May  8 23:33:04 Tjallings-MacBook-Air Installer[293]: 'Install Failed' UI displayed message:'The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.'.
Tjalling
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Joined: 8. May 2012, 23:36

Re: Installation VirtualBox fails at 'Validating Packages'

Post by Tjalling »

Turns out this issue is completely unrelated to VirtualBox.

If anyone stumbles upon this post and has similar issues, I managed to work out a solution. It's posted here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18380003#18380003
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