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Arch0

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Registered: 2017-11-02

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systemd and vboxservice fail

Guys, I've been following this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2SN0yLtYDc

but now my systemctl --failed out is the following:

systemd-modules-load.service loaded failed failed Load Kernel Modules
vboxservice.service loaded failed failed VirtualBox Guest Service

What should I do?

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: systemd and vboxservice fail

Welcome to the forums Arch0

What you should do is not follow random Youtube tutorials, as they're usually both incorrect and out of date.
Read the wiki instead.

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Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 757

Re: systemd and vboxservice fail

Think about it: is the machine that's running Vbox a host or a guest? Guest modules on a host machine will fail to load, that's sort of logical, isn't it?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: systemd and vboxservice fail

The 4.13.10 kernel got moved to Core, but the vbox modules for it are still in community-testing. Either grab them from there or wait for them to be moved.

nartes

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From: Minsk, Belarus

Registered: 2014-07-05

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Re: systemd and vboxservice fail

I don't about modules being kept in testing. But the issue has popped up for me. I'm running archlinux under Windows Virtualbox 5.1.30r. The kernel is 4.13.12-1, vbox dkms and utils packages are both of version 5.2.2-2. The symptom looks like a broken graphics.

nartes

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From: Minsk, Belarus

Registered: 2014-07-05

Posts: 62

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Re: systemd and vboxservice fail

The problem is with Wayland support on the kernel I mentioned. There's a patch to kernel - ce10d7b4e8e (Hans de Goede) which fixes the issue. Probably testing kernel should come with the solution. For now I did disable wayland in /etc/gdm/custom.conf.

Last edited by nartes (2017-11-30 10:31:47)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: systemd and vboxservice fail

nartes, that is a totally different issue. Don't threadjack.

axiome

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Registered: 2016-10-11

Posts: 3

Re: systemd and vboxservice fail

follow the systemd wiki, specially the "journalctl _PID=" it will tell you what went wrong
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