Hi Michael, Le samedi 05 janvier 2008 à 22:03 +0100, Michael Meskes a écrit : > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:54:46PM +0100, Julien Valroff wrote: > > > Could you please try again with 1.5.4-dfsg-1? There were some changes > > > mad to virtualbox that might effect the behaviour you're seeing. > > > > You are right, this version does fix the issue, I thus close the bug. > > Let me just explain what happened. VBox 1.5.2 had a typo that made it > load libhal.so which of course is only installed if you install the > libhal-dev package. When I read that they fixed this typo to read > libhal.so.1 I thought it might fix your problem too, which is > fortunately did. We all didn't notice because we had libhal-dev > installed which is needed to build virtualbox-ose. > > Which brings up one other thought, namely that virtualbox does work > without libhal, but should have libhal installed. Also it shows that > virtualbox does not directly link to libhal. Thus I added it as > recommended, which will hopefully make sure that a similar situation > doesn't come up again.
Great, thanks for your details information! Cheers, Julien
