(I'm adding '[email protected]' back as a CC: so this thread is preserved on the list and in the archives, &c.)
Warner White <[email protected]> writes: > Start cleanly over? I thought that was what I was doinjg by > uninstalling VBox. The package manager generally does not remove files created by applications. The convention for applications on unix/linux is to store user-related settings in ~/.«ApplicationName»/. Thus, the package manager won't remove these settings; so if you uninstall and re-install the app, it will still see those settings files. Many apps look to see if their setting file(s) exist as a sort of "I'm running for the first time" check. It looks like VirtualBox isn't doing that, exactly, but maybe the version changed, and it's failing to upgrade. > It tells me that my XP has been saved. I've tried to delete that entry, but > cannot. I don't know what that means. What's "[your] XP"? Is that a Windows XP virtual machine? Maybe you're seeing that because VBoxGtk is still basically working, but it's not able to actually start VirtualBox underneath it? I dunno. > I have VBoxGtk 0.4.0. The source is 0.2.4. From what I gather looking at the ubuntu/debian package listings, "VBoxGtk" seems to be (only) a front-end application using GTK to control VirtualBox. What's the version of the "virtualbox" and "virtualbox-ose" packages? (FWIW, VirtualBox ships with it's own GUI front-end program; I'm not sure what value VBoxGtk is really adding, here. But I've never used it, so maybe it does add value. *shrug*) > "maybe if you just move ~/.VirtualBox/ out of the way,"--you mean go there > and delete it? That's the kind of thing I learned not to do in Windows. Well, I'd just move it out of the way, at first, in case you wanted to bring it back for whatever reason. $ cd ~ $ mv .VirtualBox .VirtualBox.bak … or something to that effect. I'm just reacting to the lines [[[ Could not load the settings file '/home/warner/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml'. Cannot convert settings from version '1.5-linux'. The source version is not supported ]]] in the error message you posted. This reads to me like virtualbox 1.6 or 2.0 is now installed, and is seeing a virtualbox-1.5 settings file hanging around, and doesn't actually support backwards compatibility with 1.5. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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