VBoxweb-service permission issue

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Gaijin66
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VBoxweb-service permission issue

Post by Gaijin66 »

Hello everyone,

I have a problem that i am struggling about for a while. Maybe i overlooked, but i cannot find an answer for this problem. I hope anyone can help. I am quite a newbie to linux.

I am using ubuntu lucid lynx. My virtualbox version is 4.3.38.

My /etc/default/virtualbox is as follows:

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VBOXWEB_USER=gerrit
VBOXWEB_HOST=127.0.0.1
VBOXWEB_LOGFILE=/var/log/vboxweb.log
The log file shows:

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VirtualBox XPCOM Server 4.3.38 r106717 linux.amd64 (Apr 19 2016 20:10:31) release log
00:00:00.001071 main     Log opened 2017-04-09T13:36:28.440844000Z
00:00:00.001075 main     Build Type: release
00:00:00.001087 main     OS Product: Linux
00:00:00.001090 main     OS Release: 2.6.32-74-server
00:00:00.001092 main     OS Version: #142-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 28 10:12:19 UTC 2015
00:00:00.001141 main     DMI Product Name: IBM x3850-[88722RG]-
00:00:00.001163 main     DMI Product Version: 
00:00:00.001307 main     Host RAM: 12027MB total, 11660MB available
00:00:00.001319 main     Executable: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC
00:00:00.001321 main     Process ID: 2847
00:00:00.001323 main     Package type: LINUX_64BITS_UBUNTU_10_04
00:00:00.129535 nspr-2   Home directory: '/home/gerrit/.config/VirtualBox'
00:00:00.142519 nspr-2   Loading settings file "/home/gerrit/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml" with version "1.14-linux"
00:00:00.682822 nspr-2   Successfully initialised host USB using sysfs
00:00:00.725605 nspr-2   NetIfAdpCtlOut: VBoxNetAdpCtl: Error while retrieving link speed for virbr0: VBoxNetAdpCtl: ioctl failed: Operation not supported
00:00:00.735058 nspr-2   HostDnsMonitor: old information
00:00:00.735084 nspr-2     no server entries
00:00:00.735100 nspr-2     no search string entries
00:00:00.735111 nspr-2     no domain set
00:00:00.735120 nspr-2   HostDnsMonitor: new information
00:00:00.735129 nspr-2     server 1: 208.67.222.222
00:00:00.735140 nspr-2     server 2: 208.67.220.220
00:00:00.735151 nspr-2     no search string entries
00:00:00.735160 nspr-2     domain: domain
00:00:00.735183 nspr-2   HostDnsMonitorProxy::notify
00:00:00.778080 nspr-2   VDInit finished
00:00:00.862796 nspr-2   Loading settings file "/home/gerrit/VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu 10.10 Server/Ubuntu 10.10 Server.vbox" with version "1.14-linux"
00:00:00.906174 nspr-2   Loading settings file "/VMs/Windows Server 2008 NL/Windows Server 2008 NL.vbox" with version "1.14-linux"
00:00:00.930742 nspr-2   Loading settings file "/VMs/Domein Controller 1/Domein Controller 1.vbox" with version "1.14-linux"
00:00:00.957531 nspr-2   Loading settings file "/VMs/Domein Controller 2/Domein Controller 2.vbox" with version "1.14-linux"
00:14:07.600759 main     ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80bb000c) aIID={05f2bbb6-a3a6-4fb9-9b49-6d0dda7142ac} aComponent={Medium} aText={Medium '/VMs/Windows Server 2008 NL/Windows Server 2008 NL VDisk.vhd' cannot be closed because it is still attached to 1 virtual machines}, preserve=false
00:14:07.601178 main     ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80bb000c) aIID={05f2bbb6-a3a6-4fb9-9b49-6d0dda7142ac} aComponent={Medium} aText={Medium '/VMs/Domein Controller 1/VDiskDC01.vhd' cannot be closed because it is still attached to 1 virtual machines}, preserve=false
00:14:07.601582 main     ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80bb000c) aIID={05f2bbb6-a3a6-4fb9-9b49-6d0dda7142ac} aComponent={Medium} aText={Medium '/VMs/Domein Controller 2/Domein Controller 2-disk1.vhd' cannot be closed because it is still attached to 1 virtual machines}, preserve=false
00:14:07.647372 Watcher  ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={fafa4e17-1ee2-4905-a10e-fe7c18bf5554} aComponent={VirtualBox} aText={The object is not ready}, preserve=false
When i start vboxweb-service with:

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sudo service vboxweb-service start
it says fail.

When i issue the following commands:

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sudo -u gerrit /usr/bin/vboxwebsrv --background
sudo service vboxweb-service start
then it starts. But i will not do that everytime after my server starts. I will have it started automatically.

After examining the problem i found out that vboxweb-service will not write the pidfile /var/run/vboxwebservice. It also does not write /var/log/vboxweb.log.
So assume it has something to do with permissions, but i do not know how to resolve it.

Every help is appreciated.
Gaijin66
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Re: VBoxweb-service permission issue

Post by Gaijin66 »

Does nobody know the answer? Can somebody please help?
Perryg
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Re: VBoxweb-service permission issue

Post by Perryg »

Are you running the distro fork of VirtualBox or did you download it from virtualbox.org?

Normally this is a permission issue and acts differently with distro forks which we do not support here.
Gaijin66
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Joined: 9. Apr 2017, 18:44
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Re: VBoxweb-service permission issue

Post by Gaijin66 »

You could be right. Sorry I posted it here. I will ask somewhere else. This can be closed.
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