On Sunday 17 August 2008 08:20:38 pm russbucket wrote:
> VirtualBox-1.6.2_31466_openSUSE103-1
> linux 2.6.25.11-0.1-pae #1 SMP (openSUSE 11.0 last update was Friday)
> all prerecs were met.
>
> I installed the SUN version of Virtual Box (SUSE 10.3 RPM on SUSE 11.0.last
> week. Everything worked fine except shared folders. Today when I tried to
> start it I got the following error:
>
> Failed to create VirtualBox COM object
> Callee RC: 0x80040154
>
> tried manually restarting and got the following:
>
> linux:~ # sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
> Stopping VirtualBox kernel module done
> Removing old VirtualBox kernel module done
> Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module done
> Starting VirtualBox kernel module done
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib> which VirtualBox
> /usr/bin/VirtualBox
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib> /usr/bin/VirtualBox
> Cannot create a lock file for '/tmp/.vbox-finemanruss-ipc/ipcd'.
> Check permissions.
> Cannot create a lock file for '/tmp/.vbox-finemanruss-ipc/ipcd'.
> Check permissions.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib> cd /tmp
>
> There is no vbox-finemanruss-ipc/ipcd in /tmp
>
> Searching the forum and googling had some messages with the failure code
> but they were not for the COM Object.
>
> tried starting the system with nmi_watchdog=0 on the option line of grub,
> still failed. this was suggested on page 148 of the manual.
>
> Ant Ideas what I should look at next would be appreciated or do I need to
> reinstall everything?
>
> Thanks in advance.
Cancel this! I found an answer I do not understand but it worked. openSUSE
forum. Said ti try as root:
rm -r /tmp/.vbox-finemanruss-ipc
It worked even though I looked at /tmp as user and as root and the ipc was not
there.
Thanks again to anyone who happens to respond.
--
Russ
Linux register user 441463
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