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 > >> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 21:14:12 -0600 >> From: eminmn at sysmatrix.net >> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> Subject: [tclug-list] virtualbox on mint 17 (64bit) with cinnamon >> >> I am getting the following error (or warning) when I run virtualbox >> and then when I make a new machine and reserve disk space (ver. >> 4.3.10-dfsg-1 with virtualbox-qt): >> >> VirtualBox .... Gtk-critical .... assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' >> failed >> >> Aside from this appearing in the terminal screen after every step of >> the setup in the Oracle VirtualBox gui screen, the process seems to be >> going normally. Can the failure of this assertion be ignored? If not, >> can someone give me an apt-get recipe for installing all the packages >> that VirtualBox depends on? I have gotten as far as this using >> synaptic. I am trying to make a w32 win7 guest on this linux mint 17 >> laptop. There is no grub boot manager; it just starts in mint without >> any scrolling by of the startup process, vmlinuz et al. >> I bought the laptop (lenovo t400) without any MS OS installed. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ed >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >