VirtualBox 4.0 wont open up. Whats up with that?

[ert69]

i installed virtualbox 4.0 and have used it for some time now... Recently it just wont open up and I duno what to do.. I've tryed reinstalling, but its still not opening... Any ideas?

[sikander3786]

Try opening it from the command line and post the output.

Applications > Accessories > Terminal:

VirtualBox

[ert69]

Says this...

VirtualBox: supR3HardenedVerifyDir: Cannot trust the directory "/usr/lib/virtualbox": group and/or other writable (st_mode=040775)

[CharlesA]

Post the output of this please:

ls -ld /usr/lib/virtualbox

[slooksterpsv]

In terminal, I would run:

sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-4.0

Then reinstall.

[ert69]

Post the output of this please:

ls -ld /usr/lib/virtualbox

ert69@Ubuntu:~$ ls -ld /usr/lib/virtualbox
drwxr-xrwx 5 root root 4096 2011-01-15 22:14 /usr/lib/virtualbox
ert69@Ubuntu:~$

[ert69]

In terminal, I would run:

sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-4.0

Then reinstall.

Nope.. tryed that already... says the same thing in terminal.. :S

[CharlesA]

ert69@Ubuntu:~$ ls -ld /usr/lib/virtualbox
drwxr-xrwx 5 root root 4096 2011-01-15 22:14 /usr/lib/virtualbox
ert69@Ubuntu:~$

Yep. That's the problem, it should look like this:

charles@thor:~$ ls -ld /usr/lib/virtualbox/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 12288 2011-01-19 08:37 /usr/lib/virtualbox/

You could use chmod to change it to the correct permissions, but I really hope the permissions inside the directory are ok.