[oi-dev] Virtualbox

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Wed May 31 14:06:40 UTC 2017


Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>> Far as I understood things... anything above 5.0.X, that is, any of
>> the 5.1.x series will not install due to requiring gt5 I think it was.
>>
>
> It includes its own private copy of Qt, rather than requiring the
> OS to have one (which in the case of Solaris it usually won't).
>
> Actually, I suspect the problem is more likely to be
>
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/5709
>
> If you run VirtualBox with LD_DEBUG=versions you'll see (you have to do
> this as root otherwise setuid gets in the way)
>
> ...
> 19254: 1: version needed processing:
> file=/opt/VirtualBox/amd64/libQt5XcbQpaVBox.so.5
> 19254: 1:             file                        version
> 19254: 1:             libc.so.1                   SUNW_1.22.7
> 19254: 1:
> 19254: 1:
> 19254: 1: ld.so.1: VirtualBox: fatal: libc.so.1: version 'SUNW_1.22.7' not
> found (required by file /opt/VirtualBox/amd64/libQt5XcbQpaVBox.so.5)
> ...
>
> A quick look at why it wants that version of libc using pvs
>
> pvs -vs libQt5XcbQpaVBox.so.5
> ...
>     libc.so.1 (SUNW_1.22.7):
>         asprintf;

Can you say what version of Vbox this output is from.  I do not see
any indication of its version.





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