VBox 4.1.18 crashes on startup on 10.5.8

Bill Janssen · Post by **Bill Janssen** » 25. Jul 2012, 19:51

I'm running VirtualBox 4.1.18 on a Mac Pro running Leopard ( 10.5.8 ). I downloaded the dmg from the VB site and installed it. It won't start up. I will attach the crash report below, after I've been "a member for 1 days and have 1 posts". Meanwhile, here's a snippet:

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Process:         VirtualBox [50154]
Path:            /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox
Identifier:      VirtualBox
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [85]

Date/Time:       2012-07-25 10:27:14.278 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version:  6
Anonymous UUID:  4080BE61-99A6-442D-B812-38B3DEFF7AA8

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000008
Crashed Thread:  0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   QtCoreVBox                    	0x0159671d QString::indexOf(QChar, int, Qt::CaseSensitivity) const + 13
1   QtCoreVBox                    	0x0159cabe QString::split(QChar const&, QString::SplitBehavior, Qt::CaseSensitivity) const + 142
2   VirtualBox.dylib              	0x011a5375 TrustedMain + 1648885
3   VirtualBox.dylib              	0x011a5a71 TrustedMain + 1650673
4   VirtualBox.dylib              	0x012c7c47 TrustedMain + 2838983
5   QtCoreVBox                    	0x016a092a QMetaCallEvent::placeMetaCall(QObject*) + 42
6   QtCoreVBox                    	0x016a15aa QObject::event(QEvent*) + 1018
7   QtGuiVBox                     	0x018bcd3c QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) + 188
8   QtGuiVBox                     	0x018c4139 QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) + 2041
9   QtCoreVBox                    	0x015b506c QCoreApplication::notifyInternal(QObject*, QEvent*) + 108
10  QtCoreVBox                    	0x01694ade QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents(QObject*, int, QThreadData*) + 734
11  com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x91941772 __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 466
12  com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x919429a2 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 546
13  com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x91943aa8 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88

I should point out that this worked fine (well 4.1.14 did) until I did some Qt work on this machine, which included building Qt from source and installing it. However, all the Qt libraries referenced are local to the VirtualBox app. I wonder if there's some Qt config file somewhere that needs to be removed and/or updated?

Bill