I have been using app-emulation/virtualbox-bin until recently, when it was removed from the tree. After switching to the source ebuild app-emulation/virtualbox, I can no longer start existing or newly created VM. This is the error I get in a dialog box: --- The virtual machine 'VM' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1). Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component: MachineWrap Interface: IMachine {85632c68-b5bb-4316-a900-5eb28d3413df} --- Based on web searches this seems to be a relatively generic error, with different potential root causes. A while back I started a thread on the forums trying to solve the issue: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1119409.html There were several helpful suggestions that I tried, none of which helped, you can see all details in the thread. To summarize: - I tried both stable and testing versions. They both build correctly, the GUI starts with no error, but I do get the above error when starting a VM - I tried with both my existing VMs and newly created VMs - I tried removing the existing config and starting from scratch - I tried rebuilding the modules, and rebooting several times - I tried running as root, to make sure it's not a permissions related issue - I tried switching back to the binary version, it worked with no issues, switching back to source based I get the failure again > eix -Ic virtualbox [I] app-emulation/virtualbox (6.1.14a@10/04/2020): Family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise and home use [I] app-emulation/virtualbox-additions (6.1.14@10/02/2020): CD image containing guest additions for VirtualBox [I] app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle (6.1.14.140239@10/02/2020): PUEL extensions for VirtualBox [I] app-emulation/virtualbox-modules (6.1.14@10/13/2020): Kernel Modules for Virtualbox > sudo emerge --info Password: Portage 3.0.8 (python 3.7.8-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-9.3.0, glibc-2.31-r6, 5.4.66-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.4.66-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2630QM_CPU_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.7 KiB Mem: 16293832 total, 4741224 free KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 8346620 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:45:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: c4a305dd52f8f347bd272b19605e1f320508d4d6 sh bash 5.0_p18 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0 app-shells/bash: 5.0_p18::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.30.3::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.18-r4::gentoo, 3.7.8-r2::gentoo, 3.8.5::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.17.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.7::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.42.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.18::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r5::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.16.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.34-r2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 6.5.0-r3::gentoo, 9.3.0-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.3.2::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r4::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.4-r1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.31-r6::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync8.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-extra-opts: local location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo priority: 0 bumblebee location: /var/lib/layman/bumblebee masters: gentoo priority: 50 pentoo location: /var/lib/layman/pentoo masters: gentoo priority: 50 steam-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/steam-overlay masters: gentoo priority: 50 torbrowser location: /var/lib/layman/torbrowser masters: gentoo priority: 50 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 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I have exactly the same problem. Just to add from the VBoxSVC.log: 00:00:00.148170 nspr-2 Loading settings file "/opt/nc/vbox/New group/Test/Test.vbox" with version "1.16-linux" 00:00:00.148497 nspr-2 VirtualBox: object created 00:00:00.705486 nspr-2 Failed to open "/dev/vboxdrvu", errno=13, rc=VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE 00:00:17.366679 nspr-4 Failed to open "/dev/vboxdrvu", errno=13, rc=VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE 00:00:22.398594 nspr-5 Failed to open "/dev/vboxdrvu", errno=13, rc=VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE 00:00:27.389504 nspr-2 Failed to open "/dev/vboxdrvu", errno=13, rc=VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE 00:00:27.873538 Watcher ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) aIID={5047460a-265d-4538-b23e-ddba5fb84976} aComponent={MachineWrap} aText={The virtual machine 'Test' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0 00:00:28.408704 nspr-4 Failed to open "/dev/vboxdrvu", errno=13, rc=VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE 00:26:25.870447 main VirtualBox: object deletion starts the kernel modules are loaded and the devices exist: crw------- 1 root root 10, 60 Oct 18 10:14 /dev/vboxdrv crw------- 1 root root 10, 59 Oct 18 10:14 /dev/vboxdrvu crw------- 1 root root 10, 58 Oct 18 10:14 /dev/vboxnetctl Kernel version is also 5.4.66-gentoo
The issue persists with the newly released 6.1.14 version.
(In reply to Lori from comment #2) > The issue persists with the newly released 6.1.14 version. Sorry, I meant 6.1.16
I solved the issue on the one of my machines that had this problem. It was a problem with the ownership of the directories where the VirtualBox binaries reside. The have to belong to root:root I fixed this with: # chown root:root /usr # chown root:root /usr/lib64 # chown root:root /usr/lib64/virtualbox The binary version used to install in /opt/VirtualBox/ and therefore I did not notice the problem. According to https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16759 the parent folders of the virtualbox binaries have to belong to root:root since 5.1.20 Maybe this could be checked by the ebuild?
(In reply to Hermann Mundprecht from comment #4) > I solved the issue on the one of my machines that had this problem. [...] I can confirm that this solution fixes the issue on my machine as well. For some unknown reason, both /usr and /usr/lib64 (and /usr/lib64/kde4) were owned by UID 1002 GID 1002, which no longer exists on my system. (Perhaps a legacy of some past installation?) Resetting the ownership of these directories to root:root fixed the issues with running virtualbox as a normal user.
Thank you! I confirm that I needed to change my /usr folder ownership to root and that fixed the issue. VirtualBox could really improve their error dialogs...
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6abf35b9907a61390aef371e6ead261ef036ab1d commit 6abf35b9907a61390aef371e6ead261ef036ab1d Author: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac.paragon@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2022-09-04 08:28:24 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-09-05 01:19:03 +0000 app-emulation/virtualbox: add check to pkg_pretend Check /usr, /usr/lib are owned by root. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/749273 Signed-off-by: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac.paragon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> app-emulation/virtualbox/virtualbox-6.1.38.ebuild | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
