Problem - - - - After clean install of FreeBSD 10.1 and 'emulation/virtualbox-ose', when trying to run the program, the following is output to the console: "exec: /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: Permission denied" I must chmod +x /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox as root in order to use it. Expectation - - - - - - VirtualBox should launch without needing to change run permissions, especially as root. Thank you, Will Brokenbourgh
Duplicated on FreeBSD 10.3.
I believe this is by design. You should add yourself to the vboxusers group as documented in the virtualbox-ose pkg-message. This command will show the pkg-message at any time in case you need it: pkg info -D virtualbox-ose I think we can close this bug report.
(In reply to Steve Wills from comment #2) I failed to mention it in my initial report, but I *was* part of the vboxusers group and the problem persisted.
(In reply to Will B from comment #3) Ah, I see. And you're sure you logged out and back in?
(In reply to Steve Wills from comment #4) I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD 10.3, then virtualbox-ose. When configured as described in the package message, VirtualBox starts fine as a non-root user now. I do remember VirtualBox did not launch properly before, even when the instructions in the package message were followed, followed by a reboot. I'm fine with this being closed now unless Dan's problem is still not solved...
As soon as you run VirtualBox as root once it will overwrite some permissions in /tmp or /var which it needs to properly start. That means the next start will fail with a very cryptic error message.
(In reply to Bernhard Froehlich from comment #6) Please, can we be more specific about those changes to permissions? When I found symptoms of the problem, around ten days ago: [PC-BSD Testing] VirtualBox will not launch, permission denied, on 11.0-CURRENTJUNE2016 http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/testing/2016-June/010739.html – and more recent output, below, shows VirtualBox still not working without superuser privileges. ---- $ date ; freebsd-version ; uname -a Friday 1 July 2016 at 01:06:26 BST 11.0-CURRENTJULY2016 FreeBSD hpelitebook850g2-pcbsd.university.brighton.ac.uk 11.0-CURRENTJULY2016 FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENTJULY2016 #5 b7bc135(linux-drm-4.6): Thu Jun 23 02:22:14 UTC 2016 root@devastator:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ virtualbox exec: /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: Permission denied $ sudo virtualbox Password: Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt 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incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile $ virtualbox exec: /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: Permission denied $
What is the output of ls -lad /usr/local/lib/virtualbox /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox Also please paste the output of groups
(In reply to Gary from comment #8) $ ls -lad /usr/local/lib/virtualbox /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox drwxr-xr-x+ 5 root wheel 61 9 Jun 17:46 /usr/local/lib/virtualbox -r-s--x--- 1 root vboxusers 28952 6 Jun 05:55 /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox $ groups gjp4 wheel operator $
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #9) You need to be in the vboxusers group. You also need to log out and back in again once you have added yourself to the group.
Maybe relevant: [PC-BSD Testing] PC-BSD User Manager GUI seems to fail to add me to a required group http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/testing/2016-July/010753.html
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #11) group membership is a property determined on login and stays with your session until logout. It is not dynamically re-evaluated when you change /etc/groups. check to see if the group modification has been made with grep ^vboxusers /etc/group If it has, logout and login again and it should work
(In reply to Gary from comment #12) Thanks for the explanation. Now, VirtualBox does launch as expected. (The application seems to stop responding when I choose 'Add' from the Machine menu, I'll treat this as a separate issue.)
Perhaps the post-install information should tell the user to add themselves to the `vboxusers` group in addition to/instead of the `operators` group as it does now. This might clear up some of the issues.
(In reply to Will B from comment #14) It does -- BEGIN QUOTE -- You also have to add all users to your vboxusers group in order to use vbox. % pw groupmod vboxusers -m jerry -- END QUOTE --
@Gary, thanks for that. For some reason I thought it said you had to add to the `operators` group. Maybe that was a long time ago. Thanks again. :-)
(In reply to Will B from comment #16) It also mentions the operator group, for access to USB devices https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/emulators/virtualbox-ose/pkg-message?revision=415503&view=co -- BEGIN QUOTE -- USB Support: ============ For USB support your user needs to be in the operator group and needs read and write permissions to the USB device. % pw groupmod operator -m jerry -- END QUOTE --
@Gary, fair enough. That's what I get for posting something passed my bedtime.
Is this still relevant?
(In reply to w.schwarzenfeld from comment #19) Don't know, I don't use FreeBSD anymore.