Bug 351109

Summary:	app-emulation/virtualbox-3.2.12-r3 does not start (it is looking for virtualbox-ose dir)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Róbert Čerňanský <openhs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) <polynomial-c>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	patrick, swapon
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Output of emerge --info

Description Róbert Čerňanský 2011-01-08 12:01:13 UTC

It seems that recent renaming of virtualbox-ose to virtualbox broke it.

The file /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg contains value for INSTALL_DIR that points to "/usr/lib64/virtualbox-ose" which does not exists thus /usr/bin/VirtualBox wrapper script fails:

$ VirtualBox 
/usr/bin/VirtualBox: line 84: /usr/lib64/virtualbox-ose/VirtualBox: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/VirtualBox: line 84: exec: /usr/lib64/virtualbox-ose/VirtualBox: cannot execute: No such file or directory

Unfortunately fixing the value to "INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib64/virtualbox" still does not make the VirtualBox to run.  Breakage seems to be somewhere in the library link level.  For example VBoxManage command does not find VBoxDDU.so which is located in /usr/lib64/virtualbox.

$ VBoxManage 
/usr/lib64/virtualbox/VBoxManage: error while loading shared libraries: VBoxDDU.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

or

$ VirtualBox 
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedVerifyDir: Failed to open "/usr/lib64/virtualbox-ose": No such file or directory (2)


Vbox modules are loaded:

$ lsmod | grep vbox
vboxnetflt             12973  0 
vboxnetadp              4172  0 
vboxdrv              1732527  2 vboxnetflt,vboxnetadp


Environment is set:

$ echo $VBOX_APP_HOME 
/usr/lib64/virtualbox


Relevant USE flags settings:

# emerge -pv virtualbox
...
[ebuild   R   ] app-emulation/virtualbox-3.2.12-r3  USE="additions alsa opengl python qt4 vnc -headless -pulseaudio -sdk -vboxwebsrv" 0 kB


This was the first install of VirtualBox on this machine.

Comment 1 Róbert Čerňanský 2011-01-08 12:02:52 UTC

Created attachment 259284 [details]
Output of emerge --info

Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-01-08 12:32:32 UTC

please make sure that you

1) etc-update all virtualbox related files after the upgrade
2) run "env-update" as root after the upgrade
3) logout and relogin with the user you want to run virtualbox as

Please report back if these three steps help to fix your issue.

Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-01-08 12:41:06 UTC

+  08 Jan 2011; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
+  -virtualbox-3.2.12-r3.ebuild, virtualbox-3.2.12-r4.ebuild,
+  files/virtualbox-ose-3-config:
+  Fixed install path in vbox.cfg. Thanks to Robert Cernansky for reporting this
+  issue in bug #351109.

Forget my previous comment. I forgot to adjust the install path in two files (stupid me!). Sorry for the inconveniencies. Should be fixed with virtualbox-3.2.12-r4.

Comment 4 Róbert Čerňanský 2011-01-08 14:22:23 UTC

It works now.  Many thanks for such a quick response!