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 1QTE0V-0003t1-2I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:08:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D02471C213 for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 14:08:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413931C1C6 for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:30:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.200] (port-92-206-91-128.dynamic.qsc.de [92.206.91.128]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M3B8p-1Pccgj1zOB-00sstT; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:30:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4DEB84F5.2080907@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:30:29 +0200 From: Nicolai Beuermann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de-DE; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110509 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox update v4.0.8 trouble References: <4DE2BF91.7080106@gmx.de> <201105292359.29994.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201105292359.29994.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:BV8nXcOgRQZYaJyQlpv42osusGZTcZRy45YF8ETg7BE FXQByaFDEz3s7AlZ9QECeUiQRAbmaEVpYRxrlg/7L2elk5NaIG tCLN+f2sVUpHQUnQkTRrkhI82Iy5emgiv2U4aIFo3CRzwPnLrl JBMFX0dp4HPO0yibwKxOG758/E7t7CtecvXuYDRxDn0aiIbF7c NV4qO1wHEZK7O7SV5VC+cjpF766ng23gHaXFkMsdGU= X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cfa1e1877360cce86c631f10b280a5f8 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