Op maandag 15 januari 2018 19:40:52 CET schreef Larry Finger:
On 01/15/2018 11:37 AM, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:
Op maandag 15 januari 2018 18:35:47 CET schreef Bruno Friedmann:
On lundi, 15 janvier 2018 17.25:38 h CET Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:
Hi,
Suddenly my VirtualBox instance wouldn't start, the message being
VirtualBox: Effective UID is not root
I remembered seeing this years ago, where the culprit was that /usr/lib/ virtualbox/VirtualBox needed 4755 as permissions. The actual perms:
-rwxr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 158320 10 jan 00:34 VirtualBox
Did a 'chmod 4755' on it and now everything is back to normal. Anybody else seeing this? If so, I'll file a bugreport.
I've put my user in vboxusers group, as I found it more elegant ;-)
My user *is* in the vboxusers group.
Your file has permissions 07 acc50, but the spec file calls for 0755. The latter works, but the former does not. I do not understand that as 0750 should allow read and execution for the vboxuers group. Note that setting SUID in the spec file would cause a build failure.
Please file a bug report as that will give us a more permanent location for the info. When you do, please post the output of the command "grep -r VirtualBox /etc/permissions*"
Thanks,
Larry
Larry, I have my doubts whether this indeed is a bug, or related to my rearranging/merging some user accounts. Will remove the Vbox packages and reinstall. In the past I've seen messages re. changing perms of Vbox. Will report back. If the issue reappears, I'll report a bug. -- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Forums Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org