virtualbox goofs, reinstall doesnt help

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virtualbox goofs, reinstall doesnt help

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I have been tranquilly using virtualbox on zorin os linux (ubuntu derivative, has ubuntu kernel), and suddenly i go to launch it and it doesnt launch. so i launch in terminal and i get the error shown in screenshot. Then i reinstall and try to run again but i have the same error. I would love to start programming on qb64 on my xp vm and this turn of events is very depressing and dissapointing and help would be appreciated! thanks!
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Re: virtualbox goofs, reinstall doesnt help

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The question you need to answer is what changed? Did you upgrade the host or VirtualBox?
The error is a GTK error and that would seem to be host related.
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Re: virtualbox goofs, reinstall doesnt help

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@perryg: no i did not upgrade either.
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Re: virtualbox goofs, reinstall doesnt help

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Something must have changed or it would still be working. Perhaps you installed something. You are the only one that can possibly tell.
I would see about checking the host for upgrades and make sure that your GTK packages are not damaged.
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Re: virtualbox goofs, reinstall doesnt help

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Perryg wrote:Something must have changed or it would still be working. Perhaps you installed something. You are the only one that can possibly tell.
I would see about checking the host for upgrades and make sure that your GTK packages are not damaged.
@perryg, The only thing that has been going wierd is updates have been failing and i am getting help from zorinos.com forums for that. Maybe ill give them link to this forum subject as it may give a clue to the situationalism :)
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Re: virtualbox goofs, reinstall doesnt help

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I already have a clue and you have just confirmed it yourself. Something on the host is damaged, corrupt, or packages are out of sync. In any case this is a host issue until you can provide diagnostic information showing otherwise I am afraid.
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Re: virtualbox goofs, reinstall doesnt help

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thank you, @perryg, ill try to fix the problem
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Re: virtualbox goofs, reinstall doesnt help

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strangely though the problem happened after the update errors were rambling @perryg
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