Unable to add self to group vboxusers

Sun Apr 9 18:39:07 UTC 2017


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