Bug 259555 – app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-1.6.6 Missing VirtualBox (binary or script)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Jorge Luis Williams 2009-02-19 04:49:38 UTC]

After emerging app-emulation/virtualbox-ose I get a message that says

"To launch VirtualBox just type VirtualBox"

However, VirtualBox is not in my executable path -- either something is missing or something silently failed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
simply: emerge virtualbox-ose



marciana desktop # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8200_@_2.66GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.8
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_US es"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl alsa avahi avi bash-completion beagle berkdb binfilter bluetooth bonjour branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl cvs dbus divx divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo examples fam ffmpeg firefox fortran gcj gdbm gif gimpprint gmedia gnome gnome-keyring gpg gpgme gpm gstreamer gtk hal hyphenation iconv ieee1394 imap intel ipod ipv6 isdnlog jai java javascript jimi jpeg kerberos latex libcaca libnotify lm_sensors mad mbox mdnsresponder-compat meanwhile midi mikmod mmx mono motif mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap nautilus ncurses nforce2 nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia odk ogg ole opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plugin png ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl sensord session slang smartcard smp smtp sound spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd thunderbird tiff tk truetype unicode usb vorbis webdav win32codecs wmf wmp x86 xattr xcomposite xinerama xml xmlrpc xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2009-02-22 14:22:20 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> After emerging app-emulation/virtualbox-ose I get a message that says
> 
> "To launch VirtualBox just type VirtualBox"
> 
> However, VirtualBox is not in my executable path -- either something is missing
> or something silently failed.

Hi,
As reported by the elog notice after emerging virtualbox:

"You must be in the vboxusers group to use VirtualBox."

So please verify that your user account is a member of the vboxusers group,
if not you can do this (as root) with:
gpasswd -a user_name vboxusers

[Comment 2 Jorge Luis Williams 2009-02-22 15:21:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hi,
> As reported by the elog notice after emerging virtualbox:
> 
> "You must be in the vboxusers group to use VirtualBox."
> 
> So please verify that your user account is a member of the vboxusers group,
> if not you can do this (as root) with:
> gpasswd -a user_name vboxusers
> 

Yea, I am in the vboxusers group.

jorgew@marciana ~ $ groups
wheel audio cdrom video usb users portage jorgew plugdev vboxusers

In fact, I used to run virtual box just fine, it's only after a recent update that it stopped working. 

-jOrGe W.

[Comment 3 Patrick Lauer 2009-03-29 09:33:21 UTC]

That looks like a problem in the local setup. 
Is this still an issue with 2.1.4 ? If yes, can you show us your PATH variable?