Virtualbox program error:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine …. Failed to load
VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT).
Terminal output:
balazs@inspiron:/usr$ ls -l
total 164
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 69632 Oct 12 12:27 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 24 19:04 games
drwxr-xr-x 81 root root 12288 Sep 29 11:57 include
drwxr-xr-x 200 balazs balazs 36864 Oct 12 12:27 lib
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 23 10:43 lib32
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Oct 3 14:02 local
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Oct 10 19:17 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 337 root root 12288 Oct 12 12:27 share
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Oct 12 12:27 src
I didn't changed anything. Maybe some other installed software screwed things up. But I think /usr/lib should be owned by root.
Inside the folder everything is owned by root.
balazs@inspiron:/usr/lib$ ls -l | less
total 196232
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 24 19:03 accountsservice
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 16 12:49 ADM_plugins
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 24 19:04 aisleriot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 24 19:04 apg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 28 01:50 apr-util-1
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 24 19:02 apt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Apr 24 19:03 aspell
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 24 19:03 at-spi2-core
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34512 Jul 11 07:51 attica_kde.so
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 24 19:04 avahi
How should I fix this ?
I fear I'll break my OS. I did sudo chown on that folder once and I had to reinstall everyting because sudo wasn't owned by root etc. ( a year ago ) I decided not to use Virtualbox, but now I need it.
Any help?
Best Answer
Use
chown
to change the owner:This will change the owner of
/usr/lib
directory to root.