Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object.

candeia · Post by **candeia** » 19. Sep 2008, 19:09

First apologizes my poor English. My default language is Portuguese.

I was running Virtualbox-1.6.4 for testing purposes in Slackware 12.1, but suddenly, one day, i receive the critical error message "Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object". The machine startup normally as root user but as common user i receive the message.
A temporary directory '/tmp/.vbox-user-ipc/ipcd' was created at /tmp directory at machine startup. That directory can't be overwritten when Virtualbox starts as common user. I solve the problem deleting the file. How can i work around this issue: turn on Virtualbox as root and as normal user without the need to delete this file?

Thank you in advance.

Post by **vkov_tinsky** » 19. Sep 2008, 21:27

Did you try deleting the whole /tmp/.vbox* directory? When you start a VM as a normal user it should recreate it (with user permissions, obviously).

Regards,
VT

Post by **Sasquatch** » 19. Sep 2008, 23:46

Please use the search. It's been discussed several times. Check the Windows Hosts forum too, there is a link in one of the topics to a ticket report with a fix. Even though it's for Windows, there could very well be a Linux fix attached too.

Have you tried it with a new user (other than yourself and root)?

candeia · Post by **candeia** » 20. Sep 2008, 02:58

Sasquatch wrote:Please use the search. It's been discussed several times. Check the Windows Hosts forum too, there is a link in one of the topics to a ticket report with a fix. Even though it's for Windows, there could very well be a Linux fix attached too.

Have you tried it with a new user (other than yourself and root)?

Here more from the same, I should have done a more thorough search. A new user works fine. but a elegant solution remains espected.