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horsecool

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 55

[solved] can not start VirtualBox..

It works well until I reinstalled Gnome and removed ~/.configure/gnome-session(probably irrelivent..). Now whenever I start it in terminal, it complains:

VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.so",) 
failed: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I think a reinstall could solve the problem but I already have two working guests on it...

Anyone has an idea? Thanks!

Last edited by horsecool (2010-04-17 01:26:24)

empthollow

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Registered: 2009-09-26

Posts: 168

Re: [solved] can not start VirtualBox..

I would do a search for the file libGLU.so.1 to see if it exists on your system.  If it does, I would try to find out where virtualbox is looking for it and symlink it there.  If it does not, I would google to find what package supplies this file.  Hope that helps.  I use virtualbox but have not seen this problem.  If you do need to reinstall, I don't think you would loose your clients unless you delete the config folder in your home directory.

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Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: [solved] can not start VirtualBox..

A reinstall shouldn't  mess with the guests, since they are on different places.

I am using virtualbox from the AUR, not virtualbox-ose but it should be the same in what concerns the guests.

In any case to be sure you could always copy them somewhere else, but I don't think its necessary, just reinstall
over the old installation, that is, without uninstalling.

Mektub

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horsecool

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 55

Re: [solved] can not start VirtualBox..

Hi, empthollow and Mektub, thanks you two. I reinstall VirtualBox, and the problem is still there; so I googled and it seems "mesa" and "libgl" are the two relevent packages. After reinstalling these two packages, my VirtualBox(and two guests) comes back!

It's a good start for the weekend!

empthollow

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Registered: 2009-09-26

Posts: 168

Re: [solved] can not start VirtualBox..

cool, glad you got it working.

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Out_Cold

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Registered: 2010-09-19

Posts: 1

Re: [solved] can not start VirtualBox..

I had the same problem and the same solution worked great. thanks!