virtualbox-bin won't start, ose will [SOLVED]

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Raniz · Post by **Raniz** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:41 pm

I need the USB capabilities of virtualbox-bin, but I can't get it to start. the -ose version starts fine,but when I try to fire up the binary version I get an error saying something about failing to create the COM object and the details mentions NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED.

Any ideas?

cach0rr0 · Post by **cach0rr0** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:10 pm

seen this one already?

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3672#comment:28

Raniz · Post by **Raniz** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 7:30 am

cach0rr0 wrote:seen this one already?

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3672#comment:28

Nope, but those symlinks are installed by the ebuild (although virtualbox-bin resides in /opt and not /usr/lib64, but all the symlinks are in components/)

Raniz · Post by **Raniz** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 7:43 am

Solved it by adding myself to the usb group

xathin · Post by **xathin** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:50 am

I seem to be getting the same message on mine. If I run 'sudo VirtualBox', it starts just fine. I was already in the usb group, so the same thing is not going to fix my issue. Here is a list of the groups I am in: 'lp wheel audio video games usb users plugdev vboxusers'.

There is also no icon in my Applications menu in Gnome, for either -bin or -ose. I tried the -ose, but there was no VirtualBox file to load the GUI. Anyone have any ideas? This is a fresh install, not an upgrade. I just recently re-installed everything for Gentoo, and am running ~amd64.

xathin · Post by **xathin** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 4:14 am

Whatever the problem might have been, it appears to be resolved now.

Raniz · Post by **Raniz** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:11 pm

xathin wrote:Whatever the problem might have been, it appears to be resolved now.

While searching for a solution to my issue I found several people with similar issues that solved it by removing all VirtualBox temporary files in /tmp

xathin · Post by **xathin** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 11:33 pm

After relogging a few times, all the errors appear to have corrected themselves with the -bin. I wasn't able to use the icon in the Applications menu, but was able to type VirtualBox in a terminal. After relogging, suddenly the Applications menu item was working correctly.

desultory · Post by **desultory** » Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:51 am

Split off "[topic=832835]Unmasking virtualbox.[/topic]".