Re: "Critical error" starting LilyDev

[John Gourlay]

Federico,

The PAE setting was the problem. Thanks for helping, and I apologize for 
overlooking that step in the instructions.

John

> On Nov 2, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Federico Bruni <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Il giorno lun 2 nov 2015 alle 16:04, John Gourlay <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>> I’m a new user of LilyPond hoping to get involved in development. I’ve 
>> installed VirtualBox and with it I’ve created a virtual machine with the 
>> LilyDev disk image. The Debian installation completed, but it won’t run; 
>> VirtualBox gives me a popup error message saying, “A critical error has 
>> occurred while running the virtual machine…” Do you have any suggestions for 
>> overcoming this problem?
>> I’m running Mac OS X version 10.10.5, VirtualBox version 5.0.8, and the 
>> LilyDev disk image lilydev-4.0-i386.hybrid.iso. What other information would 
>> be most helpful in diagnosing the problem?
> 
> Hi John
> 
> I have no idea of what the error may be...
> Did you check with md5 if the file you downloaded is corrupted (probably not, 
> if the installation completed successfully)? You should get exactly this 
> string:
> 
> $ md5sum lilydev-4.0-i386.hybrid.iso
> 9da792275907b44cd6b98f67b64a33f5
> 
> Did you enable PAE in Virtualbox, as explained in point 5 here?
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/lilydev#installing-lilydev-in-virtualbox
> 
> If all above is correct, try:
> 
> 1. checking the log file of virtualbox
> 2. running virtualbox from the command line and hopefully you'll get more 
> useful information
> 
> 
>