On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:16:38 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > > <snip>> >> Check out this recent VB forum thread: >> >> [Solved] VBox 4.1.8 fails as non-root user >> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=47199 > > I have to confess to being a little bit mystified by the description > there (I'll note that the user was having exactly the same debugging > problem I am -- a wild goose chase caused by suid being ignored in > strace!).
The user also reports the result of strace output. Is that not working for you? > The fix reported there was > >>Re: VBox 4.1.8 fails as non-root user by Perryg » 8. Jan 2012, 23:32 > >>If you started VirtualBox as root then the VBOX_USER_HOME environment >>has probably changed. See Chapter 10.1.3 Global configuration data >>"VBOX_USER_HOME environment" > > VBOX_USER_HOME is the location of the directory containing global > virtualbox configuration, which by default is $HOME/.VirtualBox. So, > apparently, in spite of it being referred to as global, it's per-user > configuration. How this is affected by whether you install as root or > using sudo is a mystery to me... > > but I'm sufficiently desperate that I did go ahead and reinstall with > > sudo aptitude install virtualbox > > with no difference in the results. I think the tip given at the forum was aimed to those people who installed virtualbox manually, it should be useless if you get the precompiled package from Debian repositories. > In the mean time, I've come across some other programs on my machine > that are also seg faulting on launch, and don't require suid. Right now > I'm tracing through executions of alsaplayer, which seems to be seg > faulting somewhere in the process of loading its dynamic modules.... The weird thing is that it works for another user running over the NFS shared /home while fails for the other :-? Just to test, I would try to use a local $HOME. Also, the results of strace would be helpful to debug the problem. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jf1k1t$odu$1...@dough.gmane.org
