Re: "Critical error" starting LilyDev

[John Gourlay]

Federico,

I do have another small LilyDev/VirtualBox problem. I’m having trouble using 
the Shared Folders feature to give me access to a folder in my Mac file system 
from LilyDev in VirtualBox. The folder I want to share is 
/Users/John/Documents/LilyPond in the Mac file system. It’s privilege is set to 
Read & Write for everyone. I’ve defined it in VirtualBox with the name 
LilyPond, with Auto-mount Yes, and with Access Full. In Debian I can see a 
folder with the name /media/sf_LilyPond, but I can’t look into it. When I try I 
get the error message, “Error opening directory ‘media/sf_LilyPond’: Permission 
denied”. Do you know what I'm missing?

Also, in your last message you mentioned the ca-certificates package. I don’t 
understand the significance of this missing piece.

I can compile LilyDev itself and the documentation, and I’m becoming familiar 
with git. I’m looking at the LilyPond Contributor’s Guide, but I have to admit 
that it’s a bit overwhelming. It suggests that I should have a mentor, which 
sounds like a great idea. How do I go about getting one? I’m a recently retired 
software engineer highly experienced with C++, less with Unix, and not at all 
with Scheme. I’m not a musician, and I’ve used LilyPond only for toy examples 
so far. I once knew a lot about using computers to engrave music, as I was the 
principle investigator for the MusiCopy Project at Ohio State University in the 
1980s. I’m sure that much has changed since then, but I’m pleased to say that 
LilyDev looks to be very much like what MusiCopy might have been if we’d had an 
opportunity to complete it. I’d like to help further the project in some way.

John

> On Nov 2, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Fe"derico Bruni <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Il giorno lun 2 nov 2015 alle 17:18, John Gourlay <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>> The PAE setting was the problem. Thanks for helping, and I apologize for 
>> overlooking that step in the instructions.
> 
> Ok, good. And welcome to LilyPond!
> Let me know if you find any problem in LilyDev.
> 
> The image you are using does not include the package ca-certificates, which 
> is needed for git cloning via https and also when working with git-cl.
> 
> 
>