From: Nicolai Beuermann <Nicolai.Beuermann@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox update v4.0.8 trouble
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:30:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEB84F5.2080907@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105292359.29994.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
Am 29.05.2011 23:59, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> 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
Now it works.
One question remains unanswered and that is how this wrong symbolic link
was created??? By portage?
>
>> Please help. I don't have an idea.
>>
>> Nico
>
Thank you very much.
Regards
Nico
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2011-05-29 21:50 [gentoo-user] virtualbox update v4.0.8 trouble Nicolai Beuermann
2011-05-29 21:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-05 13:30 ` Nicolai Beuermann [this message]
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