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

[Daniel Baumann]

Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> could you be please more specific in the "mess".

>>> 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
>> you're having quite a mess with different versions of the related
>> packages, please make sure you have the same version from everything and
>> then report back please.

you're using 2.2.4 and, apparently from the bug report, 3.0.2 as well.
that wont work together.

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