Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 12:39:00 -0600 From: JD <jd1008@gmail.com> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to add self to group vboxusers Message-ID: <58EA7FC4.6030406@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <DB5PR02MB1189607E32B06D7819E450F5F60E0@DB5PR02MB1189.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB1200DDB51D32BC88EC919713F60E0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <58EA7C59.3010608@gmail.com> <DB5PR02MB1189607E32B06D7819E450F5F60E0@DB5PR02MB1189.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On 04/09/2017 12:30 PM, Manish Jain wrote: > On 04/09/17 23:54, JD wrote: >> >> On 04/09/2017 12:04 PM, Manish Jain wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> I am trying to run VirtualBVox under my under my system, a FreeBSD (p1) >>> 11 amd64 box with a radeon R5 230 (Caicos) card. >>> >>> >>> I did the following and rebooted : >>> >>> a) installed virtualbox-ose via pkg >>> >>> b) inserted vboxnet_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf >>> >>> c) added self to users vboxusers with : 'pw groupmod vboxusers -m <X>' >>> >>> d) added the following line to /etc/devfs.rules : >>> >>> add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group operator >>> >>> Upon reboot, trying to run VirtualBox gets me : >>> >>> libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information >>> libGL error: image driver extension not found >>> libGL error: failed to load driver: radeon >>> libGL error: failed to open drm device: Permission denied >>> libGL error: failed to load driver: r600 >>> <html><b>Effective UID is not root (euid=1001 egid=1001 uid=1001 >>> gid=1001) (rc=-10)</b><br/><br/>Please try reinstalling >>> VirtualBox.<br><br><!--EOM-->where: SUPR3HardenedMain >>> what: 2 >>> VERR_PERMISSION_DENIED (-10) - Permission denied. >>> </html> >>> ^C >>> >>> >>> When I run the groups command, I get different results based on >>> effective UID : >>> >>> >>> a) as root, when I run 'groups <X>', I spot vboxusers among the groups >>> for <X> >>> >>> b) as normal user, when I run groups I do not see vboxusers among my >>> groups. >>> >>> >>> I am therefore unable to run VirtualBox. What exactly could be the >>> problem that leads me into vboxusers not being among my groups ? >>> >>> >>> Thanks for any help >>> >>> Manish Jain >>> >> I do not know how you tried to add users to a group, but here is the >> CLI command >> $ sudo |usermod -a -G wheel <username1> >> Unfortunately, the command only allows the addition of one user at a >> time :( >> > Strangely, I do not seem to have the usermod command : > > bash: usermod: command not found > > > Thanks and Regards, > Manish Jain > Run sudo dnf -y install shadow-utils
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