[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#448347: Please try again

[Michael Meskes]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:54:46PM +0100, Julien Valroff wrote:
> > Could you please try again with 1.5.4-dfsg-1? There were some changes
> > mad to virtualbox that might effect the behaviour you're seeing.
> 
> You are right, this version does fix the issue, I thus close the bug.

Let me just explain what happened. VBox 1.5.2 had a typo that made it
load libhal.so which of course is only installed if you install the
libhal-dev package. When I read that they fixed this typo to read
libhal.so.1 I thought it might fix your problem too, which is
fortunately did. We all didn't notice because we had libhal-dev
installed which is needed to build virtualbox-ose.

Which brings up one other thought, namely that virtualbox does work
without libhal, but should have libhal installed. Also it shows that
virtualbox does not directly link to libhal. Thus I added it as
recommended, which will hopefully make sure that a similar situation
doesn't come up again.

Michael
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