Bug 374429 – app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-4.0.10-r1 gui deosn't work

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ian Delaney (RETIRED) 2011-07-08 10:52:32 UTC]

virtualbox-bin, I assume is a binary version of virtual box, emerges fine.  On calling it, the gui fails to come up.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge package
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Actual Results:  
call /opt/bin/VirtualBox

Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object

The application will now terminate.

Callee RC: 
NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0x80040154)

(Is this a Windows system component?)

Expected Results:  
That it work

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2011-07-08 12:06:11 UTC]

Does VirtualBox start when you invoke it from a console?

[Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2011-07-08 12:10:08 UTC]

Oh wait, I think I've found the problem. Please logout from X and relogin. I bet that should fix the problem.
I suppose this happens when you had app-emulation/virtualbox installed before and then switch to virtualbox-bin. The virtualbox installation leaves some environment variables back that need to be reset to virtualbox-bin compliant values (which should happen on a logout/relogin into X).

[Comment 3 Elijah "Armageddon" El Lazkani (amd64 AT) 2011-07-08 15:31:19 UTC]

I followed Ian's steps and got to the same error. Lars suggested a logout and a log back in again to fix the problem, he was correct. A simple logout and a login fixes the problem the virtualbox-bin GUI will run.

I have my user in the virtualbox group "vboxusers".

[Comment 4 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2011-10-24 21:37:21 UTC]

I gonna close this bug. It's simply a problem with the environment when you replace vbox-bin with vbox-nonbin or vice versa without a relogin.