https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440999 Andreas Jaeger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |mkudlvasr@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440999 User schmidt@naa.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440999#c2 Norman Schmidt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |schmidt@naa.net --- Comment #2 from Norman Schmidt 2009-01-16 10:41:52 MST --- Short error explanation: User vboxadd is not set up with installing guest addidtions package. The piece of virtualbox that triggers this error message is the following line in /etc/init.d/vboxadd: chown $owner:$group $dev 2>/dev/null (truncated here) This is meant to change the ownership of the virtualbox device /dev/vboxadd , which is created with uid 0, gid 0 to a different owner, namely user vboxadd and group 1. Group 1, namely bin, exists in a standard openSuSE 11.1 system, but unfortunately, and this is the reason for this bug, not the user vboxadd. The user vboxadd ist usually added upon installation of the built-in virtualbox guest extensions for Linux. openSuSE pre-packages this into three packets virtualbox-ose-guest-tools, virtualbox-ose-kmp-[whatever] and xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose. I guess but have not checked that the error (missing user creation) is in virtualbox-ose-guest-tools. I checked the bug to be effective in the openSuSE 11.1 release (32bit i386, version 2.0.6) and the build system packets (version 2.1.0) as of 2008/01/16. Proposed fix: Add the creation of the user vboxadd to packet installation of virtualbox-ose-guest-tools Hotfix: Manually add that user, e.g. by executing as root:# useradd -d /var/run/vboxadd -g 1 -r -s /bin/sh vboxadd That is what the built-in installation script of virtualbox would do. The directory does not exist, I do not know if it should and openSuSE 11.1 forgot this as well or if another directory is meant to be it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.