> > After compiling VirtualBox-5.1.22 for linux, I am unable to start it. > > > > I'd be grateful for any suggestions on how to fix this. > > > > ---------- > > snip > > > don't ask me why only strace shows the message (which is written to > stderr, so should be visible when you run VirtualBox by hand): > In fact now that I try again, I see that message (i965, swrast) only seems to have appeared when I ran VirtualBox with sudo
> VirtualBox: Error -10 in SUPR3HardenedMain! > VirtualBox: Effective UID is not root (euid=1001 egid=50 uid=1001 gid=50) > > VirtualBox: Tip! It may help to reinstall VirtualBox. > > Error -10 is "access denied", and the next line complains that the > executable isn't installed as setuid root. > ..but /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox is suid root... > No idea which "make install" you're talking about... VirtualBox can't be > installed in such a way. Must be a VERY strange recipe you're following > (might have been applicable to some old 4.x builds, but certainly not to > anything recent). > Indeed, how can I have forgotten that the virtualbox source does not work like any other and I had to install it by hand :P > BTW, what's that %U rubbish in the command line? Looks wrong to me > (smells like some desktop env parameter placeholder), but on the other > hand shouldn't do too much harm. I'd leave it out. > That "rubbish" was taken from the virtualbox desktop file, but you're right, it works (or doesn't work) just as well without it. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
