Virtualbox doesn't start

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I installed Virtualbox 4.3.30-20.1 using YaST2 but when I can’t open it nor from application launcher nor console. On console I get:


xxxxxx@XXXXXX:~> vboxgtk 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/vboxgtk", line 94, in <module>
    vboxgtk.main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vboxgtk/iface.py", line 47, in call_with_method
    return func(self,*args,**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vboxgtk/iface.py", line 74, in main
    builder.add_from_file(os.path.join(paths.data_path, f))
GLib.Error: gtk-builder-error-quark: Invalid property: GtkGrid.n_rows on line 1564 (11)
Exception ImportError: 'No module named xpcom' in <bound method VirtualBoxManager.__del__ of <vboxapi.VirtualBoxManager object at 0x7f5f3649b0d0>> ignored
2

vboxgtk is broken and abandoned.

Uninstall it and use virtualbox-qt (the official GUI by Oracle) instead.

3

Thanks. Now it works. Earlier I installed only packets which was set automatically by package manager (and there wasn’t virtualbox-qt)

4

Well, if you select virtualbox, YaST will select a GUI automatically. As vboxgtk comes first in the alphabet, it might have chosen that.