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Diffstat (limited to 'src/VBox/Installer/linux/VBox.sh')
| -rwxr-xr-x | src/VBox/Installer/linux/VBox.sh | 30 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/VBox/Installer/linux/VBox.sh b/src/VBox/Installer/linux/VBox.sh index fb584d48..31e32f91 100755 --- a/src/VBox/Installer/linux/VBox.sh +++ b/src/VBox/Installer/linux/VBox.sh @@ -96,15 +96,33 @@ WARNING: The compilation of the vboxdrv.ko kernel module failed during the EOF fi -SERVER_PID=`ps -U \`whoami\` | grep VBoxSVC | awk '{ print $1 }'` +# Get effective user name to use it in order to compose XPCOM IPC socket path. +VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER="$(whoami)" +if [ -z "$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER" ]; then + cat << EOF +WARNING: Unable to detect effective user name. VirtualBox might run incorrectly. +EOF +fi + +# Variables LOGNAME and USER are used by XPCOM code in order to +# compose IPC socket path. If they set to something which is different +# from the effective user name, it might result in misbehavior. +# Setting VBOX_IPC_SOCKETID will tell XPCOM code which path it should use explicitly. +[ -n "$LOGNAME" ] && [ "$LOGNAME" = "$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER" ] || vbox_override_env="1" +[ -n "$USER" ] && [ "$USER" = "$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER" ] || vbox_override_env="1" + +if [ -n "$vbox_override_env" ]; then +cat << EOF +WARNING: Environment variable LOGNAME or USER does not correspond to effective user id. +EOF + export VBOX_IPC_SOCKETID="$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER" +fi + +SERVER_PID=`ps -U "$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER" | grep VBoxSVC | awk '{ print $1 }'` if [ -z "$SERVER_PID" ]; then # Server not running yet/anymore, cleanup socket path. # See IPC_GetDefaultSocketPath()! - if [ -n "$LOGNAME" ]; then - rm -rf /tmp/.vbox-$LOGNAME-ipc > /dev/null 2>&1 - else - rm -rf /tmp/.vbox-$USER-ipc > /dev/null 2>&1 - fi + rm -rf "/tmp/.vbox-$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER-ipc" > /dev/null 2>&1 fi if [ "$SHUTDOWN" = "true" ]; then |