I've got a very strange virtualbox problem: I have two hosts sharing /home with NFS. The two machines are very close to identical: same CPU, same motherboard, same amount of memory. Same kernel version, same virtualbox version, same versions of all the libraries virtualbox depends on.
If I run virtualbox on one of the machines, it works. On the other, I get an immediate segmentation fault if I run as a user, but it works if I run sudo. I have reinstalled virtualbox; I have verified that all the files in /usr/lib/virtualbox have identical permissions on the two machines. I am a member of vboxusers on both machines. I'm at a stage of frustration where I want to run strace to try to see where the seg fault is happening. Unfortunately, due to a past exploit, suid bits are silently ignored when ptrace is active, so when I run it with strace I get an error to the effect that I need to be root (googling leads me to believe I'm far from the first person to run into this!). So: is there any way to temporarily make my machine honor the suid bit when running with ptrace? I expect the answer is "no" or I'd have come across the way to do it by now, but I figure it can't hurt to ask.... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1baa5rqrlw....@pfeifferfamily.net
