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Re: VirtualBox won't start



On Sunday 14 December 2008 06:39 pm, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote the following on 12/14/2008 08:51 AM:
> > Dennis Wicks wrote:
> >> I just installed VBox 2.0.6 from their web site and it won't start.
> >>
> >> I did remove all VBox 1.6.6 things with Synaptic first and then used
> >> dpkg -i to install the .deb file from the VBox site.
> >>
> >> When I try to run VirtualBox I get
> >>
> >>   VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain:
> >>   dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed:
> >>   /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol:
> >>   FT_Select_Size
> >>
> >> Any ideas on how to fix this?
> >
> > Install 2.0.6 from Debian experimental.
>
> OK, Thanks for that tip!
>
> I did that. Now I get a message
>
>      Could not find VirtualBox installation.
>      Please reinstall.
>
> Now what is wrong now, I wonder??

Just asking the obvious....Did you remove all traces of the old install before 
doing the new install?


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