[ Comments below, in line ] On Monday 18 January 2010 at 11:40 am, Andreas Höschler penned about "Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox does not start"
> The headless instances still run, but they cannot be restarted and the > VirtualBox control application simply does not come up. I wonder > whether I am the only one with this problem! :-( Hi Andreas, After you issue the `pkill's, please confirm VirtualBox is no longer running. On my machine, (openSUSE), VirtualBox is installed in `/usr/lib/virtualbox' therefore I can quickly check if there are any maverick processes as follows: % ps -ef | fgrep -i Virtual pablo 6802 6594 0 12:00 pts/11 00:00:00 fgrep -i Virtual pablo 15787 5022 0 08:09 ? 00:00:03 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox pablo 15801 15787 0 08:09 ? 00:00:02 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD pablo 15808 1 0 08:09 ? 00:00:07 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --pipe 9 --auto-shutdown pablo 15838 15808 6 08:09 ? 00:15:45 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment winxp --startvm 7add4211-2afd-4dc1-9084-f0ece1ca142 Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users