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From: Nicolai Beuermann <Nicolai.Beuermann@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox update v4.0.8 trouble
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:08:47
Message-Id: 4DEB84F5.2080907@gmx.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox update v4.0.8 trouble by Alan McKinnon
1 Am 29.05.2011 23:59, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
2 > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:50 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Nicolai Beuermann
3 > did opine thusly:
4 >
5 >> Hi,
6 >> after updating to virtualbox-4.0.8 I cannot start a vm anymore.
7 >>
8 >> The following ebuilds are installed:
9 >> app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8
10 >> app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.0.8
11 >> app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-4.0.8
12 >> app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.0.8
13 >>
14 >> The logs mention that symlinks are not permitted. /usr/lib64 is a
15 >> symlink to /usr/lib on my system.
16 >
17 > Switch it to be the other way round which is how it should be. It works
18 > perfectly here with the exact same packages:
19 >
20 > $ ls -al /usr/
21 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Oct 27 2010 lib -> lib64
22 Now it works.
23
24 One question remains unanswered and that is how this wrong symbolic link
25 was created??? By portage?
26
27 >
28 >> Please help. I don't have an idea.
29 >>
30 >> Nico
31 >
32 Thank you very much.
33 Regards
34 Nico