Bug 458113

Summary:	virtualbox does not start
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Martin Kudlvasr <mkudlvasr>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Hubert Figuiere 2008-12-10 21:09:30 UTC

virtualbox does not start. I get the following message: "Effective UID is not root"

See the attached screenshot.

Comment 1 Hubert Figuiere 2008-12-10 21:09:50 UTC

Created attachment 259264 [details]
screenshot

Comment 2 Alexander Orlovskyy 2008-12-11 13:21:01 UTC

Martin, can you look at the bug ?

Comment 3 Martin Kudlvasr 2008-12-11 14:09:51 UTC

Yeah, sure.
Hubert is this a new installation or upgrade of OS11.1GM? I tested this in new installation and it worked without problem (i just had to put my login to vboxusers group)
If it is an upgrade, look into /etc/permissions.easy and check VirtualBox permissions.

Also if you have secure setting (you use permissions.secure), you must be root to use virtualbox.

Comment 4 Hubert Figuiere 2008-12-11 14:27:13 UTC

it is an upgraded system. 11.0 to 11.1betasomething.

Comment 5 Martin Kudlvasr 2008-12-11 16:02:04 UTC

ok, this was a bug in betas, but is it fixed now (=in OS11.1)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 429725 ***

Comment 6 Hubert Figuiere 2008-12-11 16:11:21 UTC

so why upgrading the package didn't fix it?

Comment 7 Martin Kudlvasr 2008-12-12 13:12:56 UTC

because the fix was achieved by changing package "permissions". Upgrade that and it should work.