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Bug#498381: /dev/vboxdrv is root:root 660 - should be roor:vboxdrv?



Package: virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64
Version: 2.6.26+1.6.2-dfsg-3

Hi,

On a fresh lenny with virtualbox-ose and the modules just installed (both from the archive):

$ virtualbox
WARNING: /dev/vboxdrv not writable for some reason. If you recently added the
         current user to the vboxusers group then you have to logout and
         re-login to take the change effect.

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.

Hrm, but I did do that...
Re-check:

$ groups
users disk cdrom sudo plugdev vboxusers sbuild

Hmm, yes...

$ ls -l /dev/vboxdrv
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 60  9. Sep 14:46 /dev/vboxdrv

Ah.

Shouldn't that be root:vboxusers? Otherwise the hint to vboxusers might
not make that much sense :-)

Regards,

Rene

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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