Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#12556 closed task (invalid)
Debian Jessie VB - failed: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3: undefined symbol: _XEatDataWords
| Reported by: | WiseElder | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | installer | Version: | VirtualBox 4.3.6 |
| Keywords: | installer, error, libXfixes.so.3, debian jessie | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I've tried installing both Jessie distribution, and Oracle's distribution but both give the same message
when trying to launch VB. Both give the following message:
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3: undefined symbol: _XEatDataWords
The VB module builds, and installs...indicating started.
I also removed, and reinstalled libXext-dev....still get the same error message.
I tried googling the error message but didn't find any relevant answers.
System Information:
AuthenticAMD; 2 CPUs Kernel-3.11-2-amd64 GCC-4.8 (x86_64-linux-gnu) VirtualBox-4.3.6-91406-Linux_amd64.run Memory Total: 7752 MiB SWAP Total: 15867 MiB HardDrive: 1 Terabye libxext-dev libxfixes6-dev Xorg-1.14.5 (13 December 2013 10:12:53AM)
I've been trying to trouble shoot this for 3 days, any help...or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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by , 10 years ago
comment:1 by , 10 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
To me this looks like an installation problem of your Linux distribution rather than a bug in VirtualBox. Jessie is not a stable Linux distribution, therefore there is no direct support for VirtualBox on your setup. But VirtualBox runs without any problems here on Debian/Sid. The missing symbols you enumerated come from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6. I assume that the libraries libX11 and libXfixes in Debian/Testing currently don't fit together. Just wait for the next update.
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