Virtualbox on openSUSE 11

aribad · Post by **aribad** » 12. Sep 2008, 18:42

I have been trying to get Sun's Virtualbox running on my openSUSE 11
with KDE 3.5 laptop. I had installed the 10.3 version but couldn't get
it running. I saw that Sun had a version for 11.0 so I downloaded it. I
uninstalled the 10.3 version, installed the 11.0 version, and ran
"vboxdrv setup".

Now Virtualbox will not open at all. If I try to start it from the
desktop I just get little bouncing Icon for awhile. If I try to start if
from the shell I get:

hobbs:/home/russell # VirtualBox
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain:
dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed:
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so: undefined symbol: _ZN7QRegionpLERK5QRect

I can't find anything in the log files that points to a problem.

Any ideas on why this is not working?

Thanks,

Russell

Post by **Sasquatch** » 12. Sep 2008, 20:51

Have you tried a reinstall? If you run 2.0, have you tried 2.0.2 that is spotted on the servers? There hasn't been an announcement yet about it, but it should be out soon.

aribad · Post by **aribad** » 12. Sep 2008, 22:30

I tried reinstalling several time. I was installing 2.0.0. So I downloaded 2.0.2, uninstalled 2.0.0 and installed the new one. Still no go. Same error message on startup.

Not sure if this makes any difference. The install instructions on openSUSE's website says that VB will be installed into /opt but it gets installed into /usr/lib/virtualbox.

Post by **greenpossum** » 13. Sep 2008, 00:11

aribad wrote:I tried reinstalling several time. I was installing 2.0.0. So I downloaded 2.0.2, uninstalled 2.0.0 and installed the new one. Still no go. Same error message on startup.

Not sure if this makes any difference. The install instructions on openSUSE's website says that VB will be installed into /opt but it gets installed into /usr/lib/virtualbox.

You may have some traces of older 1.6 versions in /usr/lib/virtualbox. Do this:

rpm -V VirtualBox

That'll tell you if the the files from the RPM are intact. You could also try deleting everything in that directory after the reinstall, if anything is left behind. Also check that you are invoking the correct program.

which VirtualBox

Again, you may have a vestige of a former RPM.

Works fine for BTW, on both 32 and 64 bit 11.0. And I upgraded from 1.6.6.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 13. Sep 2008, 01:02

2.0.2 is now officially released. Please try it with that.

aribad · Post by **aribad** » 13. Sep 2008, 01:21

2.0.2 is now officially released. Please try it with that.

My second post states that that is what I have done.

which VirtualBox

gives me

/usr/bin/VirtualBox

while

rpm -V VirtualBox

returns nothing. I used Yast to install the rpm.

Post by **greenpossum** » 13. Sep 2008, 03:14

I notice you tried running VirtualBox as root. You are supposed to run VirtualBox as a normal user, after having added that user in the group vboxusers.

Post by **stefan.becker** » 13. Sep 2008, 11:27

What says "rpm -qa | grep irtu"?