Pablo,

this looks strange. Plesae could you fully uninstall VirtualBox
and re-install it again?

  rpm -e VirtualBox
  rpm -i VirtualBox-....

Kind regards,

Frank

On Friday 23 January 2009, Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> On Friday 23 January 2009 at 10:17 am, Frank Mehnert penned
> about "Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.2 released!"
>
> > Pablo,
> >
> > I don't see the error message in your log but I assume that the
> > host kernel modules could not be loaded. There is a small bug in
> > the rpm packages. This can be easily fixed by executing
> >
> >   /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
> >
> > as root. After that, you should be able to start VMs.
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> I should have mentioned in my original post, I did try running `setup'
> however the didn't resolve the issue, when I try to run `VirtualBox',
> I get the following error:
>
>     pa...@zoom-1004-[pablo]: VirtualBox
>     /usr/bin/VirtualBox: line 72: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox:
> Permission denied /usr/bin/VirtualBox: line 72: exec:
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: cannot execute: Success
>
> Below is the transcript of my install.  Notice how there's an error on
> the RPM database.  I checked and zypper was not running.
>
> I ran it again and you can see the second `failed' message.
>
> Let me know what forensics you may need.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers,
> pablo
>
> ----8-<----8-<----8-<----8-<----8-<--
>
> root-r...@zoom-529-[rpm]: rpm -Uvh
> VirtualBox-2.1.2_41885_openSUSE111-1.i586.rpm Preparing...               
> ########################################### [100%] 1:VirtualBox            
> ########################################### [100%]
>
> Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!
>
> ..failed
> warning: waiting to reestablish exclusive database lock
> root-r...@zoom-530-[rpm]: rpm -Uvh
> VirtualBox-2.1.2_41885_openSUSE111-1.i586.rpm Preparing...               
> ########################################### [100%] package
> VirtualBox-2.1.2_41885_openSUSE111-1.i586 is already installed
> root-r...@zoom-530-[rpm]: rpm --erase VirtualBox-2.1.2_41885_openSUSE111-1 
>                                   root-r...@zoom-531-[rpm]: rpm -Uvh
> VirtualBox-2.1.2_41885_openSUSE111-1.i586.rpm Preparing...               
> ########################################### [100%] 1:VirtualBox            
> ########################################### [100%]
>
> Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!
>
> ..failed
> root-r...@zoom-532-[rpm]: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
> Stopping VirtualBox kernel module                                          
>                        done Removing old VirtualBox netflt kernel module   
>                                                    done Removing old
> VirtualBox kernel module                                                   
>           done Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module                        
>                                       done Starting VirtualBox kernel
> module                                                                 
> done root-r...@zoom-533-[rpm]:
>
> ----



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Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems    http://www.sun.com/

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