PCLOS - program will not open in All Things Unix http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20442559 en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:49:47 EDT Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:49:47 EDT Re: PCLOS - program will not open http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442675 nixie21 : That is good advice! Thanks a lot!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442675 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:53:32 EDT Re: PCLOS - program will not open http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442669 evilghost :
said by nixie21 See Profile :

Thanks!

I do not know why, but it belongs to root now, I changed it to my user and all looks good.
Beat me to it. When something fails to load in the GUI I always try a load from the terminal so I can see any error messages that would otherwise be supressed. Glad it's working :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442669 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:52:13 EDT Re: PCLOS - program will not open http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442666 evilghost : Did you play with permissions on /tmp?

If not, then sounds like it may run in /tmp and failed to set permissions correctly or you ran it as root and it's using hostname in the directory.

Simple fix:
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442666 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:51:01 EDT Re: PCLOS - program will not open http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442663 nixie21 : Thanks!

I do not know why, but it belongs to root now, I changed it to my user and all looks good.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442663 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:50:35 EDT Re: PCLOS - program will not open http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442644 nixie21 : Cannot create/open directory '/tmp/.vbox-nixie21-ipc/ipcd'
Abnormal termination.

Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442644 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:47:22 EDT Re: PCLOS - program will not open http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442629 evilghost : Try running Virtualbox from a console with your user account and see what is returned...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442629 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:43:41 EDT PCLOS - program will not open http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442559 nixie21 : I click on Virtualbox and I see in the taskbar it is opening, but then it justs disappears and never opens? It was working fine before. I can open it as root??? Any ideas?

Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442559 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:27:27 EDT