Comment # 49
on bug 1174406
from Andreas Schneider
I'm running into the same issue on tumbleweed.
It doesn't seem to be an issue with the usb permissions as I can access it:
$ find /dev/vboxusb/ -ls
24884 0 drwxr-x--- 5 root vboxusers 100 Sep 2 07:42
/dev/vboxusb/
67434 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 40 Sep 2 07:54
/dev/vboxusb/004
5423 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 80 Sep 2 07:36
/dev/vboxusb/001
30883 0 crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 189, 1 Sep 2 07:36
/dev/vboxusb/001/002
5428 0 crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 189, 2 Sep 2 07:36
/dev/vboxusb/001/003
35736 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 120 Sep 2 07:36
/dev/vboxusb/003
39943 0 crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 189, 261 Sep 2 07:36
/dev/vboxusb/003/006
32041 0 crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 189, 260 Sep 2 07:36
/dev/vboxusb/003/005
2387 0 crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 189, 259 Sep 2 07:36
/dev/vboxusb/003/004
1468 0 crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 189, 258 Sep 2 07:36
/dev/vboxusb/003/003
$ cat /dev/vboxusb/001/002
m+$ T1 !"; !" !"b
As I get output form the device, I obviously must have access via vboxusers
group as a user.
I tried to get more log output, but didn't really work using:
export VBOX_RELEASE_LOG="rem*.e.l.f main gui"
export VBOX_RELEASE_LOG_FLAGS="buffered thread msprog"
mkdir /tmp/vbox
export VBOXSVC_RELEASE_LOG_DEST='dir=/tmp/vbox'
then starting the service manually:
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC
Then I tried to strace it. The strange thing is that printed on the
commandline:
<html><b>Effective UID is not root (euid=1000 egid=100 uid=1000 gid=100)
(rc=-10)</b><br/><br/>Please try reinstalling
VirtualBox.<br><br><!--EOM-->where: SUPR3HardenedMain
what: 2
VERR_PERMISSION_DENIED (-10) - Permission denied.
</html>
asn�$>�bgrep "Effective UID" /usr/lib/virtualbox/
Effective UID is not root (euid=%d egid=%d uid=%d gid=%d)
>>>>>> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless
Effective UID is not root (euid=%d egid=%d uid=%d gid=%d)
>>>>>> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP
Effective UID is not root (euid=%d egid=%d uid=%d gid=%d)
>>>>>> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetNAT
Effective UID is not root (euid=%d egid=%d uid=%d gid=%d)
>>>>>> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL
Effective UID is not root (euid=%d egid=%d uid=%d gid=%d)
>>>>>> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM
asn $>�ll /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless
-rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 166536 Aug 29 04:21
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless
asn $> ll /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP
-rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 166528 Aug 29 04:21 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP
asn $>�ll /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetNAT
-rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 166528 Aug 29 04:21 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetNAT
asn $> ll /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL
-rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 166528 Aug 29 04:21 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL
asn $>�ll /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM
-rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 166536 Aug 29 04:21
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM
The strange thing is, those binaries all have the suid bit set.