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* Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update
  @ 2021-02-08 20:58 99% ` n952162
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From: n952162 @ 2021-02-08 20:58 UTC (permalink / raw
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On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote:
> VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update
>
> You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in
> the strace is a clone.
>
> Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix?
>
> VBoxClient has behaved like this before, if memory serves. Either I've
> just forgotten what the problem was, or something new has popped up.
>
>

Oh, I have a clue ... I noticed that the user wasn't included in
/etc/group.  But he was before ...

I updated this system  by binary update, and I guess the default is
|--include-config.|

|From now on, I'll use |||--include-unmodified-config.||

||But adding the user, in both host and client /etc/group files, and
restarting X, didn't solve the problem, so there's likely some other old
configuration that got wiped out.
||


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