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Re: ptrace suid?



On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:23:23 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

> 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.

(...)

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

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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