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tntcoda

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Registered: 2007-07-24

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Virtualbox wont work after update

Hi,

Im using virtualbox-ose from pacman, after updating it a couple of days ago it now fails to start:

[jack@tmain ~]$ virtualbox
/usr/lib/virtualbox//VBoxSVC: error while loading shared libraries: libxerces-c.so.27: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have tried removing and reinstalling but no success, the vboxdrv module is defiantly running.

The library file mentioned exists here: /usr/lib/libxerces-c.so.27 So my guess is virtualbox is configured to look in the wrong path...

Any ideas on a fix?

Thanks,

Jack

Rasi

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Registered: 2007-08-14

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Re: Virtualbox wont work after update

ln -s /usr/lib/libxerces-c.so.27 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC/

i am not so good at this..

Last edited by Rasi (2008-01-23 22:12:19)

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tntcoda

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Registered: 2007-07-24

Posts: 115

Re: Virtualbox wont work after update

sorry, seems the problem is it wants libxerces-c.so.27 and i only have libxerces-c.so.28 installed :s