Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (437 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 01:59:45PM +0300, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After yesterday's TW update I found out that the VirtualBox GUI no
> longer starts. Instead, an error dialog pops up which says:
>
>     Effective UID is not root (euid=1000 egid=100 uid=1000 gid=100) (rc=-10)
>
>     Please try reinstalling VirtualBox.
>
> chkstat seems to think that permissions are incorrect
>
> # chkstat --warn /etc/permissions.easy
> Checking permissions and ownerships - using the permissions files
>         /etc/permissions.easy
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox should be root:vboxusers 4750. (wrong
> permissions 0750)
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless should be root:vboxusers 4750. (wrong
> permissions 0750)
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL should be root:vboxusers 4750. (wrong
> permissions 0750)
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetAdpCtl should be root:vboxusers 4750.
> (wrong permissions 0750)
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP should be root:vboxusers 4750. (wrong
> permissions 0750)
>
> but when applying it refuses to do so
>
> # chkstat --set /etc/permissions.easy
> Checking permissions and ownerships - using the permissions files
>         /etc/permissions.easy
> setting /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox to root:vboxusers 4750. (wrong
> permissions 0750)
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: will not give away s-bits on an insecure path
> setting /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless to root:vboxusers 4750.
> (wrong permissions 0750)
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless: will not give away s-bits on an insecure 
> path
> setting /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL to root:vboxusers 4750. (wrong
> permissions 0750)
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL: will not give away s-bits on an insecure path
> setting /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetAdpCtl to root:vboxusers 4750.
> (wrong permissions 0750)
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetAdpCtl: will not give away s-bits on an insecure 
> path
> setting /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP to root:vboxusers 4750. (wrong
> permissions 0750)
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP: will not give away s-bits on an insecure path
> ERROR: not all operations were successful
>
> I "fixed" this manually with
>
> # chmod 4750 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetAdpCtl /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP
>
> but this will probably reappear when I next update so I'm interested
> in a more permanent solution.
>
> What's the proper solution to this issue?

This probably means there is either a symlink or a world writeable directory
involved.

Can you check:

ls -la /usr/lib/virtualbox
ls -la /usr/lib | grep virtualbox
ls -la /usr

Ciao, Marcus
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