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Offline athouston

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(Solved) vboxusers group unknown in bootup sequence
« on: June 26, 2013, 12:56:46 AM »
I have downloaded onboot virtualbox-ose.tcz and rebooted. In the boot sequence I see an error that the group vboxusers is not known.

I ran the addgroup -S command as for the ondemand option and rebooted but no change.

I ran a dependency and orphan check in the appsbrowser and they came up clean.

Can someone please tell me the command to check the existence of groups and their memberships so I can hunt this down.

Thanks.
« Last Edit: June 26, 2013, 03:54:08 AM by athouston »

Offline athouston

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Re: vboxusers group unknown in bootup sequence
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2013, 01:31:53 AM »
When I try to re-add the group or the user I get a response that they already exist, so my previous question is redundant to some extent.

Can anyone please suggest where to look for the source of the problem.

Offline athouston

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Re: vboxusers group unknown in bootup sequence
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2013, 02:04:46 AM »
I got around the problem by making it ondemand rather than onboot. If anyone has other thoughts let me know or I will mark it off (solved).

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Re: vboxusers group unknown in bootup sequence
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2013, 03:53:20 AM »
Delete all reference. My CPU does not support the VTx processor extensions so there's probably very little chance it will ever work.

Sorry to bother.

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Re: (Solved) vboxusers group unknown in bootup sequence
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2013, 05:28:48 AM »
The info file assumes you have a low spec machine, and I do not doubt your assessment of your CPU specs.

If have the time to give it another go, with persistence here is my suggestion

manually load the extension with ----tce-load -i virtualbox-ose
ensure you see OK against all dependencies loading

If you have a low spec machine then use bootlocal as per info file like this
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addgroup -S vboxusers
addgroup tc vboxusers

if you have a decent spec machine then step A
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addgroup -S vboxusers
addgroup tc vboxusers

step B....peek inside /etc/group and check you have an entry that starts with  vboxusers and ends with tc

step C you have a good file so add to your .filetool.lst for backup
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etc/group

step D choose onboot or ondemand as you see fit

reboot and check the group entry is there before running the executable

first time ....don't use the desktop....pls...use a terminal so you can see any error messages

good luck and no need to reply as I know you have already said you can't do it