Thanks, Marc; I had already tried that with no luck. Finally someone on #vbox at freenode helped me install 4.3.18.9... from oracle and now there is no assertion failure. I'll keep the relevant url's and install procedure if any one else needs them Ed On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Marc Thomas <mat at mthx.org> wrote: > Did some quick googling and it looks like it's actually an issue with QT/GTK > compatability. Try installing `apt-get install qtconfig-qt4` and changing > your rendering engine from "QGtkStyle" to something else. > > -- > Marc Thomas > mthx.org | Github: mthxx | @mthx_ > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:00 PM, e.c. <eminmn at sysmatrix.net> wrote: > > Thanks, Ryan. Although I'm a tyro at this, I wasn't expecting a fix, just an > explanation of what the error meant. I tried the virtualbox non-free but it > threw the same error. Adding virtualbox-dbg didn't produce any more or > different information. Ed On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Ryan Coleman > <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: > > On 11/4/2014 8:12 AM, e.c. wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:16 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Check your file structure. > > A wonderfully terse reply. I haven't actually tried to install virtualbox > yet, just applied the pertinent synaptic pakages. What do you mean, fsck -v > ? There is no reason to expect anything wrong that that would find. Ed > > I kinda figured Paul's response wouldn't be really helpful. I don't have a > solution for you so I would suggest that "paul g" expand on his > uninformative response. -- Ryan > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >