Using modern.ie permissions issue when starting box

[nrobertson]

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine IE11 - Win7.
Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_WORLD_WRITABLE).


Under details


Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {8ab7c520-2442-4b66-8d74-4ff1e195d2b6}


I'm a bit of a linux noob.

So any help is appreciated.

[Perryg]

The message is telling you that the permissions of the folder that your VirtualBox is installed in are borked. VirtualBox will refuse to run if everyone has permission to the location.
It must be owned by root:root

Depending on the actual OS you need to seek assistance on how to fix this from them.

[nrobertson]

That's sort of odd,

Does that mean the installer itself installed with wrong permissions?

Or does it install depending on the parent's folder permissions.

Btw, I'm using unbutu 12.04 LTS 64 bit.


EDIT:

would the folder be called .VirtualBox

[Perryg]

VirtualBox does not change this permission. Why would it and then tell you it was not secure?

Normal location is /usr/lib/virtualbox but this can vary depending on distro.

I would suggest that you look at the permission of /usr/lib. Someone or something has changed the permission for what ever reason.

[nrobertson]

Using ls -la

I found out the permissions of the folder lib is

drwxrwxrwx

I am guessing I use something like this

chmod -R 755 lib

?

NOTE: I think I did it on accident as well somehow. Recently I was messing with www permissions. I probably accidently changed all the folders permissions in the var folder.

[Perryg]

40755 should be correct for most, but some other folders require different permissions, like system folders. Changing those as well could cause the system to misbehave or even fail to boot.

[nrobertson]

thanks to your help, I got it working.

I only changed the usr and lib folder to 755 without recusive.

That way if there is any issues I can easily switch back.