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Bug 483620 - app-emulation/virtualbox-4.2.16: wrong device permissions
Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox-4.2.16: wrong device permissions
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2013-09-04 15:10 UTC by Sven
Modified: 2013-09-04 23:34 UTC (History)
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Description Sven 2013-09-04 15:10:18 UTC
Hi,

I installed gnome 3.8. This involved switching from udev to systemd. Also, I upgraded to kernel 3.11.0. Anyhow, now the permission of the virtualbox related devices are as follows:
$ ls -ld /dev/vbox*
crw------- 1 root root      10, 58  4. Sep 16:15 /dev/vboxdrv
crw------- 1 root root      10, 57  4. Sep 16:15 /dev/vboxnetctl
drwxr-x--- 4 root vboxusers     80  4. Sep 09:54 /dev/vboxusb

I can't find any udev rules for devices vboxdrv and vboxnetctl. Shouldn't they be part of the virtualbox ebuild?


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 jospezial 2013-09-04 22:11:34 UTC
The modules of these devices are part from app-emulation/virtualbox-modules.
Everytime you build and install a new kernel, you ave to

emerge -v1 virtualbox-modules

but I think you know.

The permissions are the same on my computer.
Comment 2 Sven 2013-09-04 23:34:19 UTC
Obviously, the modules are already loaded. Otherwise, I couldn't show you the permissions, right?

I had problems running VirtualBox. I thought it was because of the permissions. But now it works again. So I was wrong. Closing.