[opensuse] virtualbox won't open
Installed virtualbox 4.1x and it seemed OK. Clicked the icon and got message to be part of user group vboxusers .Did that OK I think and re-booted and now clicking the icon does absolutely nothing at all. Can you help? Newbie here. Thanks. Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 20 March 2012 11:50:15 Robert Benjamin wrote:
Installed virtualbox 4.1x and it seemed OK. Clicked the icon and got message to be part of user group vboxusers .Did that OK I think and re-booted and now clicking the icon does absolutely nothing at all. Can you help? Newbie here. Thanks. Bob
Start from the command line virtualbox and check the error messages or the log file. -- Bogdan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 11:50 -0400, Robert Benjamin wrote:
Installed virtualbox 4.1x and it seemed OK. Clicked the icon and got message to be part of user group vboxusers .Did that OK I think and re-booted and now clicking the icon does absolutely nothing at all. Can you help? Newbie here. Thanks. Bob
Hi, did you install the virtualbox rpm with yast from the opensuse repositories, or did you download the rpm directly from virtualbox? The opensuse rpm of virtualbox doesn't work well, so try getting the one from virtualbox. Try uninstalling the rpm from the opensuse repositories with yast if that is what you did. Then go here and download the rpm for your version of opensuse. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads The rpm will be found in your /home/yourusername/Downloads file after the download is complete. When you find the rpm in the path I gave above using Dolphin, click on the rpm icon and yast will install it for you. Once it is installed, hopefully things will work better for you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 01:50 PM Mark Misulich wrote:
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 11:50 -0400, Robert Benjamin wrote:
Installed virtualbox 4.1x and it seemed OK. Clicked the icon and got message to be part of user group vboxusers .Did that OK I think and re-booted and now clicking the icon does absolutely nothing at all. Can you help? Newbie here. Thanks. Bob
Hi, did you install the virtualbox rpm with yast from the opensuse repositories, or did you download the rpm directly from virtualbox? The opensuse rpm of virtualbox doesn't work well, so try getting the one from virtualbox.
Try uninstalling the rpm from the opensuse repositories with yast if that is what you did. Then go here and download the rpm for your version of opensuse.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
The rpm will be found in your /home/yourusername/Downloads file after the download is complete. When you find the rpm in the path I gave above using Dolphin, click on the rpm icon and yast will install it for you.
Once it is installed, hopefully things will work better for you.
Alternatively, there is a virtualbox repository that you can add with YaST to install vbox. I don't know why, but the 11.4 package is also used for 12.1, and they share using the 11.4 repo (i.e., there is no 12.1 repo). The url is: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/11.4/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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