I seem to've scrod up really royally this time. So royally I'll
have to build up to my Very Dumb Question (VDQ).
Thanks to a clueful friend, I had an installation up and running
under Fedora 14. Then something (unrelated afaik : I had an app open on
my virtual XP, but was doing something else entirely -- I disremember
just what) went bonkers, and crashed X. I had to log back in.
Now when I click on the desktop launcher, I see the VB popup I
used to -- but only for a second or two.
Poking around, I found that /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
belonged to root, not my userid.
It must have been a major borass to try (as root) doing
"[root@HBsk3 virtualbox]# chown -R btth:btth VirtualBox" because it not
only didn't help, but "chown -R root:root VirtualBox" didn't fix it.
Now, when I click the launcher, I get an error box saying :
Effective UID is not root (euid=500 egid=500 uid=500 gid=500) (rc=-10)
Please try reinstalling VirtualBox.
I tried. rpm can't seem to do that. rpm -e VirtualBox tells me
it's not installed; but rpm -Uvh on what I had told me it was already
installed.
I went to the website and downloaded
VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.2_73507_fedora14-1.x86_64.rpm --which, fortunately,
was more recent than what I had.
But now both rpm -Uvh and rpm -ivh give me multiple screenfuls of
errors like this :
file /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxhost/vboxnetflt/
VBoxNetFltInternal.h from install of
VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.2_73507_fedora14-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from
package VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.12_72916_fedora14-1.x86_64
Should I just delete those earlier rpms from /home/btth? Go to /
usr/share (or maybe /usr/lib, or both) and delete virtualbox? Or what?
Put an f in the rpm command??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
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