https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476050 Summary: virtualbox-ose-2.0.6-2.6 does not start Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: ronnypeine@gmx.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.10 (like Gecko) SUSE Starting virtualbox-ose-2.0.6-2.6 gives a dialog box with following message: Effective UID is not root (euid=501 egid=100 uid=501 gid=100) Tip! It may help to reinstall VirtualBox. I tried to see if some old tmp-Files are the problem like in other reports but it's not. The only workaround for me was setting setuid with: chmod u+s /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox This has worked in openSUSE 11.0 without setuid. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- 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.