From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QQo4l-0002DU-CN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 May 2011 22:03:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 724C61C0B7; Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212A01C0B7 for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so3023493wwj.10 for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 15:00:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=1bv5QfqkdPuhoc/FDtrC0LVQU3a5nqE3T0WTRLcKdtE=; b=YuOC0axXtOzcW54bynzPya21OPn1SyrL6dcAWESS26Eo+2jbEm80fKWeA7guktTLF1 tlnBmh2OT/+WpADRbASH6NjvigPgaK8YdTP7KgkGurqFvdmNSDMnCllc+jeYdk1+Y6UC onk4Yq/ByWfjmT08SK3i7707codWjmmv/tAjA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=jfgFfc5gs6VCJ5+8ZC9gjksdVfpTwPH2Rnwo+rtKnKMx1ZCRVvMhoOQ/cpYvWyS7un cWo94/z04FvTKyxDM4RLKpicvYk0E+NZLCx/j0J362gax5DZFkgEb0AYAtEdm94uxpte Pg5BCvgjvDstsxffyiw81cT54A2OGlmPd5ODk= Received: by 10.227.59.132 with SMTP id l4mr4246700wbh.8.1306706419229; Sun, 29 May 2011 15:00:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e1sm2641375wbh.56.2011.05.29.15.00.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 29 May 2011 15:00:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox update v4.0.8 trouble Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 23:59:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4DE2BF91.7080106@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <4DE2BF91.7080106@gmx.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105292359.29994.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 64dd30f7323194a0d7250f2470d71002 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com