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Wen

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2008-10-02

Posts: 40

Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

Dear fellow,

My Arch system cannot start 'systemd-modules-load.service'. It complains that vboxguest, vboxsf, and vboxvideo modules cannot be found. However, I have previous removed virtualbox-guest-dkms. And the system does not have virtualbox-guest-utils installed. In the system, only virtualbox 5.1.2-2 and virtualbox-host-modules-arch 5.1.2-1 are installed.

Can you help me out?

Here are detailed output:

# systemctl start systemd-modules-load.service

Job for systemd-modules-load.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

# systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service

● systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2016-08-10 14:33:56 CEST; 11s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
           man:modules-load.d(5)
  Process: 4753 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 4753 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 10 14:33:56 health systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules...
Aug 10 14:33:56 health systemd-modules-load[4753]: Failed to find module 'vboxguest'
Aug 10 14:33:56 health systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 10 14:33:56 health systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
Aug 10 14:33:56 health systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Unit entered failed state.
Aug 10 14:33:56 health systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

# journalctl _PID=4753

-- Logs begin at Fri 2015-05-01 20:47:02 CEST, end at Wed 2016-08-10 14:33:56 CEST. --
Aug 10 14:33:56 health systemd-modules-load[4753]: Failed to find module 'vboxguest'
Aug 10 14:33:56 health systemd-modules-load[4753]: Failed to find module 'vboxsf'
Aug 10 14:33:56 health systemd-modules-load[4753]: Failed to find module 'vboxvideo'

# pacman -Ss virtualbox

community/libvirt 2.1.0-1
    API for controlling virtualization engines (openvz,kvm,qemu,virtualbox,xen,etc)
community/phpvirtualbox 5.0_5-1
    PHP/AJAX web interface for VirtualBox 4.*
community/virtualbox 5.1.2-2 [installed]
    Powerful x86 virtualization for enterprise as well as home use
community/virtualbox-ext-vnc 5.1.2-2
    VirtualBox VNC extension pack
community/virtualbox-guest-dkms 5.1.2-2
    VirtualBox Guest kernel modules sources
community/virtualbox-guest-iso 5.1.2-1
    The official VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO image
community/virtualbox-guest-modules-arch 5.1.2-1
    Virtualbox guest kernel modules for Arch Kernel
community/virtualbox-guest-utils 5.1.2-2
    VirtualBox Guest userspace utilities
community/virtualbox-guest-utils-nox 5.1.2-2
    VirtualBox Guest userspace utilities without X support
community/virtualbox-host-dkms 5.1.2-2
    VirtualBox Host kernel modules sources
community/virtualbox-host-modules-arch 5.1.2-1 [installed]
    Virtualbox host kernel modules for Arch Kernel
community/virtualbox-sdk 5.1.2-2
    VirtualBox Software Developer Kit (SDK)

Last edited by Wen (2016-08-10 12:54:26)

dockland

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2015-06-06

Posts: 861

Re: Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

I had the exact same issue yesterday after installing Plasma. I simply removed everything virtualbox related and the errors is gone. Going to try installing virtualbox again this afternoon.

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Trilby

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Re: Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

I have previous removed virtualbox-guest-dkms...

And did you clean out /etc/modules-load.d/?

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Wen

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2008-10-02

Posts: 40

Re: Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

And did you clean out /etc/modules-load.d/?

Yes, I did.

# ls -alh /etc/modules-load.d

total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Aug 10 14:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 111 root root 4.0K Aug 10 16:05 ..

Wen

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2008-10-02

Posts: 40

Re: Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

I had the exact same issue yesterday after installing Plasma. I simply removed everything virtualbox related and the errors is gone. Going to try installing virtualbox again this afternoon.

Thank you. I can try that. However, I need to use VirtualBox at the moment. I'll try that later, if no other solution turns out!

dockland

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2015-06-06

Posts: 861

Re: Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

I uninstalled plasma and kde-applications and reinstalled virtualbox according to wiki, but get same or similar issue

● systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since ons 2016-08-10 19:55:09 CEST; 5min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
           man:modules-load.d(5)
 Main PID: 211 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

aug 10 19:55:09 arch systemd-modules-load[211]: Failed to insert 'vboxguest': No such device
aug 10 19:55:09 arch systemd-modules-load[211]: Failed to insert 'vboxsf': No such device
aug 10 19:55:09 arch systemd-modules-load[211]: Failed to insert 'vboxvideo': No such device
aug 10 19:55:09 arch systemd-modules-load[211]: Inserted module 'vboxdrv'
aug 10 19:55:09 arch systemd-modules-load[211]: Inserted module 'vboxpci'
aug 10 19:55:09 arch systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
aug 10 19:55:09 arch systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
aug 10 19:55:09 arch systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Unit entered failed state.
aug 10 19:55:09 arch systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable.

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supersymmetry

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Registered: 2012-11-02

Posts: 11

Re: Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

Same here. Uninstalled, removed hooks, removed lib32 (I was installing android-studio which seems to be 32bit), can't get xmonad (X11) to run anymore and clean install of virtualbox-guest-utils + virtualbox-guest-modules-arch results in systemd failing to start the modules service, inet interface can't be found, and systemd doesn't shutdown properly anymore (need a reset usually to reboot, shutdown etc hangs long, long time)

I'm guessing there is a bug that I hope is fixed soon...

Smatchcube

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Re: Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

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Last edited by Smatchcube (2019-06-21 21:33:10)

mangus

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From: Bologna, Italy

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 289

Re: Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

JUst had this in my new virtual archlinux install.
reverting to linux-lts fix the issue , kernel 4.7.0 seems to break virtualbox

Smatchcube

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Re: Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

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Last edited by Smatchcube (2019-06-21 21:33:43)

supersymmetry

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Registered: 2012-11-02

Posts: 11

Re: Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

@magnus: ahh... I had that thought yesterday, I wish I would have because now it isn't even picking up the bloody network interface, dhcpcd is failing each time and no longer do I have any vbox guest packages installed.
Guess I should try and add it manually with `ip` for now to get pacman running... or use Arch ISO to bootstrap and chroot/pacstrap myself a new kernel then. Thanks for confirming anyway.

messenja

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From: Cheboksary, Russia

Registered: 2014-11-22

Posts: 9

Re: Cannot start systemd-modules-load.service

Sorry for offtopic, but i need vbox right now and have same problem. How to revert to lts kernel? Just install linux-lts package?
upd: already done, thanks

Last edited by messenja (2016-08-15 11:30:32)