On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:33 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 May 2008, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>
> > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Mike DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > Has anyone gotten Virtual box up and running?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have installed the package, but if I try to run it
> > > > I get:
> > > > VirtualBox -help
> > > > Usage: basename string [ suffix ]
> > > > Unknown application -
> > > >
> > > > VirtualBox
> > > > Usage: basename string [ suffix ]
> > > > Unknown application -
> > > >
> > > > I thought windows had cryptic messages!
> > >
> > >  More info
> > >  The above messages is from VirtualBox in /usr/bin/
> > >
> > >  The install put VirtualBox in /opt/VirtualBox
> > >
> > >  if I run /opt/VirtualBox I get:
> > >  /opt//VirtualBox
> > >  ld.so.1: VirtualBox: fatal: relocation error: file VirtualBox: symbol
> _ZTI12QListBoxItem: referenced symbol not found
> > >  Killed
> > >
> >
> > Oh, that is ugly. Looks like the binary was compiled on a higher/other
> > rev of Solaris and now you can not run it on some other version. That
> > does not normally happen unless someone stepped outside of the rules.
> >
>
>  Hmm, not sure on that. The symbol above missing to me looks like the Qt
> library (that the virtualbox GUI wants) is missing, and/or not in the path
> where the linker is looking for it. The symbol is just a mangled C++ name:
>
>  /share/SUNWspro_all/i386/latest/SUNWspro/bin/dem _ZTI12QListBoxItem
>
>  _ZTI12QListBoxItem == typeinfo for QListBoxItem
>
>  What does 'ldd' say on your virtualbox binary - does it find everything ?
>  FrankH.
>

Well gee, I made the assumption that he looked at the output from ldd.

something like :

$ ldd priv
        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
        libc.so.1 (SUNW_1.22) =>         (version not found)
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1

bad assumption on my part.

Dennis
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