[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#538945: virtualbox-ose: VirtualBox fails to start: Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 3.0.2-dfsg-1
Severity: important

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 3.0.2-dfsg-1
Severity: important


upgraded today the beast to sid's version but it GUI fails to start with
a dialog stating 

VirtualBox fails to start: Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object
The application now will terminate

Details:
 Callee RC: NS_ERROR_NO_INTERFACE (0x80004002)

I guess that is a very informative message but for me (neigther for google) it
makes much sense. Help would be appreciated!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.26            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.9-4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3               7.18.2-8.1        Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.0-4         GCC support library
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.13-4+b1       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8k-3          SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.0-4           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1:1.1.9-1         X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2                2.7.3.dfsg-1      GNOME XML library
ii  libxmu6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxslt1.1             1.1.24-2          XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  python                 2.5.4-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python2.4              2.4.6-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python2.5              2.5.4-1           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [lib 7.4.1-1             A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  virtualbox-ose-modul 2.6.29+2.2.2-dfsg-4 PC virtualization solution for Lin
ii  virtualbox-ose-modul 2.6.30+3.0.2-dfsg-1 PC virtualization solution for Lin
ii  virtualbox-ose-qt    2.2.4-dfsg-2        x86 virtualization solution - Qt b

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests:
pn  virtualbox-guest-additions  <none>       (no description available)
ii  virtualbox-ose-source       3.0.2-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - kern

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