Virtualbox does not lunch (FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE)

[Craig Butler]

Hi,

Do you have any thing in /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/ ??

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/VirtualBox
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  36 Sep 21 08:28 /usr/local/bin/VirtualBox
-> /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox

Cheers

/Craig B

On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:35 +0000, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> Im still having following issue with VirtualBox: (not able to launch
> it when installed from source with option: VBOX_WITH_HARDENING = 0)
> 
> log:
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox/
> # ls
> Makefile        files           pkg-message     work
> distinfo        pkg-descr       pkg-plist
> # make install
> # exit
> exit
> $ VirtualBox
> bash: VirtualBox: command not found
> $ whereis VirtualBox
> VirtualBox:
> $ pkg_info | grep virtualbox
> virtualbox-3.0.51.r22226 A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware
> 
> 
> 
> It seems to be installed, but not soft-linked properly, any ideas?
> 
> 
> 2009/9/18 Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org>:
> > Don't top-post, please.
> >
> > Jeronimo Calvo <jeronimocalvop at googlemail.com> writes:
> >
> >> for some reason, it gives me the same error... the funny thing is
> >> pkgdb gives me a nice colection of errors as well :D
> >>
> >>
> >> # pkg_info | grep virtualbox
> >> virtualbox-3.0.51.r22226 A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware
> >>
> >> # pkg_delete -f virtualbox-3.0.51.r22226
> >>
> >> pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/lib/virtualbox'
> >> pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is
> >> incorrectly specified?)
> >
> > This error isn't serious.  You can look in that directory, see what's
> > left, and either submit a fix for the port to remove it, or perhaps find
> > out that there is local configuration that the port *shouldn't* be
> > removing.
> >
> > --
> > Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
> >                http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
> >