virtualbox does not start

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Hi there,
I have tried to upgrade to the latest virtualbox but unfortunately I can not launch it anymore.

apa@myhost:~> VirtualBox 
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so: **undefined symbol: _ZNK10QTableView16viewportSizeHintEv**


apa@myhost:~> rpm -qa | grep VirtualBox                                                                                                                                   
VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.6_110634_openSUSE132-1.x86_64

so what it might causing this problem? I guess this is coming from the linker not being able to link with the appropriate library.
Any ideas? Running opensuse 13.1
Alex

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And how have you tried to upgrade it exactly?

apa@myhost:~> VirtualBox 
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so: **undefined symbol: _ZNK10QTableView16viewportSizeHintEv**

Looks like you have some incompatible packages installed.

apa@myhost:~> rpm -qa | grep VirtualBox                                                                                                                                   
VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.6_110634_openSUSE132-1.x86_64

so what it might causing this problem? I guess this is coming from the linker not being able to link with the appropriate library.
Any ideas? Running opensuse 13.1

The package you show above is for 13.2.
It probably won’t work on 13.1.

Either upgrade your system (13.1 is not supported officially any more since February, and Evergreen support is also going to end soon), or install the 13.1 package instead.

PS: Oracle’s repo for 13.1 is here:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/13.1/

Unfortunately they do not offer VBox 5.1.x for 13.1 (maybe because it uses Qt5 now, and I also think that the latest versions require kernel 3.16 at least), so you need to stick to 5.0 if you don’t want to upgrade to openSUSE 13.2 or higher.