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

Julien Valroff julien at kirya.net
Sun Jan 6 12:42:48 UTC 2008


Hi Michael,

Le samedi 05 janvier 2008 à 22:03 +0100, Michael Meskes a écrit :
> 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.

Great, thanks for your details information!

Cheers,
Julien







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