On Tuesday 19 August 2008 06:50:22 am Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Monday 18 August 2008, russbucket wrote: > > On Monday 18 August 2008 03:39:47 am Robin Green wrote: > > > On UNIX operating systems, including Linux, files beginning with the . > > > (dot) character are hidden by default. This is why you did not see the > > > directory in /tmp. To see dot files use "ls -a". > > > > Thanks that works as user but I looked at it as root with ls and > > yesterday it did not show the .vbox, today it does so it must have been > > something else, that was cleared by the command I executed,.blocking the > > view. > > > > Oh well its working again and I'll settle for that for now. If it happens > > again I look feathur. > > One additional remark: Please _never_ start VirtualBox as root nor as > sudo root. For security reasons and for the reason to prevent such > problems you observed. > > Kind regards, > > Frank
Thanks Frank. I was not clear, I was using root to look at /tmp for the .vbox-user-ipc and did not see it the first time. The next day after issuing the command below, I saw it as root and normal user using Konqueror and show hidden files checked. I normally start vbox as my normal user. I did find a solution to the problem on one of the SUSE forums. It was: rm -r /tmp/.vbox-user-ipc/ the only problem I'm having now is shared folders, and I'm still looking into that. Thanks again for you reply. -- Russ Linux register user 441463 _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
