Am 29.05.2011 23:59, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:50 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Nicolai > Beuermann > did opine thusly: > >> Hi, >> after updating to virtualbox-4.0.8 I cannot start a vm anymore. >> >> The following ebuilds are installed: >> app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8 >> app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.0.8 >> app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-4.0.8 >> app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.0.8 >> >> The logs mention that symlinks are not permitted. /usr/lib64 is a >> symlink to /usr/lib on my system. > > Switch it to be the other way round which is how it should be. It works > perfectly here with the exact same packages: > > $ ls -al /usr/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Oct 27 2010 lib -> lib64 Now it works.
One question remains unanswered and that is how this wrong symbolic link was created??? By portage? > >> Please help. I don't have an idea. >> >> Nico > Thank you very much. Regards Nico
