I haven't found any other good info about this that could solve the problem. Then, is there any way to fix this without reinstalling. I would like to avoid that suggestion, as I have many important VMs and I don't want to lose them. Sudo chmod 755 /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/componentsĪfter that, when trying to start the application I get a pop-up window saying:Įffective UID is not root (euid=501 egid=20 uid=501 gid=20) (rc=-20) So I found that in order to fix it, I should change the permissions as follows: sudo chmod 755 /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS I did some research and found similar problems, most of them indicating problems with permissions. MacOS': group and/or other writable (st_mode=040777)Ĭom.501 (.): Exited with code: 1
: VirtualBox: supR3HardenedVerifyDir: Cannot trust the directory '/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/
I looked in the system log (/var/log/system.log) and I found these two messages repeated every time I tried starting VirtualBox. Suddenly and without notice, VirtualBox application doesn't start.įirst, it just didn't do anything.
