VirtualBox (sometimes) not starting/hanging after recent openssl updates

[Mario Lobo]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 22:21:51 +0200
Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt at burggraben.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> ## Ivo Karabojkov (karabojkov at kit.bg):
> 
> > I've explained my tests already to the thread you mention. Here is
> > my ldd output from a working system:
> > # ldd /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VBoxRT.so
> > /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VBoxRT.so:
> 
> >         libcrypto.so.7 => /lib/libcrypto.so.7 (0x8026a8000)
> 
> Unless I completely mis-grepped your mail, this is the only libcrypto
> pulled in by your VBoxRT.so, so it's not surprising that your system
> is fine :)
> The trouble starts when /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.8 and the
> libcrypto.so.7 as above are referenced by the same VBoxRT.so.
> Mind, the libcrypto.so.8 is part of "openssl from ports", so unless
> you have that installed, you should be safe from _this_ problem.
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph
> 

Nope!

I have:

/usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VBoxRT.so:
(snip)
        libcrypto.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.8 (0x8026a7000)
        libcrypto.so.7 => /lib/libcrypto.so.7 (0x80431d000)
        libcrypt.so.5 => /lib/libcrypt.so.5 (0x804fee000)


and mine is fine too!


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