Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox update v4.0.8 trouble

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Apparently, though unproven, at 23:50 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Nicolai Beuermann 
did opine thusly:

> Hi,
> after updating to virtualbox-4.0.8 I cannot start a vm anymore.
> 
> The following ebuilds are installed:
> app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8
> app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.0.8
> app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-4.0.8
> app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.0.8
> 
> The logs mention that symlinks are not permitted. /usr/lib64 is a
> symlink to /usr/lib on my system.

Switch it to be the other way round which is how it should be. It works 
perfectly here with the exact same packages:

$ ls -al /usr/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  root      5 Oct 27  2010 lib -> lib64


The log entry tells you the software will not accept your configuration.



> 
> / filesystem is ext4 on solid-state-drive mounted with default options.
> 
> lsmod:
> vboxnetadp              4502  0
> vboxnetflt             14541  0
> vboxdrv              1745860  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
> 
> By the way stable virtualbox-3.2.12-r4 is able to run the vm.
> 
> cat VBox.log
> 00:00:00.676 VirtualBox 4.0.8-Gentoo r71778 linux.amd64 (May 29 2011
> 16:47:41) release log
> 00:00:00.676 Log opened 2011-05-29T17:02:39.312737000Z
> 00:00:00.676 OS Product: Linux
> 00:00:00.676 OS Release: 2.6.38-gentoo-r6-28.05.2011-01
> 00:00:00.676 OS Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 28 15:37:06 CEST 2011
> 00:00:00.676 DMI Product Name: MacPro1,1
> 00:00:00.676 DMI Product Version: 1.0
> 00:00:00.677 Host RAM: 9997MB RAM, available: 8732MB
> 00:00:00.677 Executable: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
> 00:00:00.677 Process ID: 5576
> 00:00:00.677 Package type: LINUX_64BITS_GENERIC (OSE)
> 00:00:00.696 pdmR3LoadR0U: pszName="VMMR0.r0"
> rc=VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED szErr="Symlinks are not
> permitted: '/usr/lib64'"
> 00:00:00.696 VMSetError:
> /var/tmp/portage/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8/work/VirtualBox-4.0
> .8_OSE/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3/VM.cpp(583) int vmR3CreateU(UVM*, uint32_t, int
> (*)(VM*, void*), void*);
> rc=VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED
> 00:00:00.696 VMSetError: Failed to load VMMR0.r0
> 00:00:00.696 VMSetError:
> /var/tmp/portage/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8/work/VirtualBox-4.0
> .8_OSE/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3/VM.cpp(354) int VMR3Create(uint32_t, const
> VMM2USERMETHODS*, void (*)(VM*, void*, int, const char*, unsigned int,
> const char*, const char*,
> __va_list_tag*), void*, int (*)(VM*, void*), void*, VM**);
> rc=VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED
> 00:00:00.696 VMSetError: Unknown error creating VM
> 00:00:00.698 ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
> aIID={515e8e8d-f932-4d8e-9f32-79a52aead882} aComponent={Console}
> aText={Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED).
> 00:00:00.698 Unknown error creating VM
> (VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED)}, preserve=false
> 00:00:00.707 Power up failed
> (vrc=VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED, rc=NS_ERROR_FAILURE
> (0X80004005))
> 00:00:00.725 Using XKB for keycode to scan code conversion
> 
> 
> Please help. I don't have an idea.
> 
> Nico

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