4.2.0 vbox VNC installation permissions/packing list
Bernhard Fröhlich
decke at bluelife.at
Wed Oct 31 06:44:09 UTC 2012
On Mo., 29. Okt. 2012 19:51:41 CET, G. Paul Ziemba <pz-freebsd-emulation at ziemba.us> wrote:
> I am trying VirtualBox 4.2.0 from
> http://people.freebsd.org/~decke/virtualbox/virtualbox-cft-4.2.0-20120920.tar.gz
>
> It seems to run OK (win 2k and freebsd 9.X guests) but I am having
> trouble with the new VNC implementation.
>
> % VBoxManage setproperty vrdeextpack VNC
> VBoxManage: error: The owner is not root:
> '/usr/local/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/VNC'
> (rc=VERR_SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT) VBoxManage: error: Details: code
> NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ExtPack, interface IExtPack,
> callee nsISupports VBoxManage: error: Context:
> "COMSETTER(DefaultVRDEExtPack)(Bstr(a->argv[1]).raw())" at line 854 of
> file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
>
> I used "sudo make install" which resulted in the following file
> permissions:
>
> % ls -lasR /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/
> total 6
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Oct 26 09:53 ./
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1536 Oct 26 09:53 ../
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 paul sw 512 Oct 26 09:35 VNC/
>
> /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/VNC:
> total 122
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 paul sw 512 Oct 26 09:35 ./
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Oct 26 09:53 ../
> 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul sw 19556 Mar 13 2012
> ExtPack-license.html 76 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul sw 77006 Mar 13
> 2012 ExtPack-license.rtf 18 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul sw 17987 Mar 13
> 2012 ExtPack-license.txt 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul sw 365 Oct 26
> 09:35 ExtPack.xml 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 paul sw 512 Oct 26 09:29
> freebsd.amd64/
>
> /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/VNC/freebsd.amd64:
> total 82
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 paul sw 512 Oct 26 09:29 ./
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 paul sw 512 Oct 26 09:35 ../
> 64 -rwxr-xr-x 1 paul sw 63747 Oct 26 09:29 VBoxVNC.so*
> 14 -rwxr-xr-x 1 paul sw 13223 Oct 26 09:29 VBoxVNCMain.so*
>
> Furthermore, they do not seem to be in the packing list:
>
> % pkg_info -L virtualbox-ose-4.2.0 | grep -i extension
> %
>
>
> cheers,
>
> ~!paul
> --
> G. Paul Ziemba
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> 11:51AM up 2 days, 14 hrs, 8 users, load averages: 0.11, 0.24, 0.26
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Please try the cft for 4.2.4 because that fixed the packing list. You need to do make install as root because vbox does some internal checking that this is the case because of suid binaries. And you need to cleanup that directories per hand before installing 4.2.4.
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