[SOLVED] Uninstall virtualbox - Now get Failed to find 'vboxdrv'

Cavsfan · 2019-02-01 00:19:46

I installed Virtualbox and now want to remove it.

pacman -Qi virtualbox only listed virtualbox but, I seen virtualbox-host-modules-arch was also installed so I removed them:

# pacman -Rs virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-arch

But, upon boot I get an error that says to enter this:

[cavsfan@ArchLinux ~]$ 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 Thu 2019-01-31 18:14:09 EST; 9min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
           man:modules-load.d(5)
 Main PID: 516 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jan 31 18:14:09 ArchLinux systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules...
Jan 31 18:14:09 ArchLinux systemd-modules-load[516]: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'
Jan 31 18:14:09 ArchLinux systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 31 18:14:09 ArchLinux systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 31 18:14:09 ArchLinux systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.

I've been searching for the solution for quite a while and cannot find anything.

How do I get rid of this error?

Last edited by Cavsfan (2019-02-08 21:09:59)

Xyne · 2019-02-01 01:02:44

It seems that you set vboxdrv to autoload by adding it to one of the module lists. Find the entry and remove it. It could be a kernel command line parameter in your boot loader or a module file in e.g. /etc/modules-load.d

The systemd service checks a number of places so it should be in one of the following (extract from the service file):

 17 ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=|/lib/modules-load.d
 18 ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=|/usr/lib/modules-load.d
 19 ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=|/usr/local/lib/modules-load.d
 20 ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=|/etc/modules-load.d
 21 ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=|/run/modules-load.d
 22 ConditionKernelCommandLine=|modules-load
 23 ConditionKernelCommandLine=|rd.modules-load

Cavsfan · 2019-02-01 18:05:36

Xyne wrote:

It seems that you set vboxdrv to autoload by adding it to one of the module lists. Find the entry and remove it. It could be a kernel command line parameter in your boot loader or a module file in e.g. /etc/modules-load.d
The systemd service checks a number of places so it should be in one of the following (extract from the service file):
 17 ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=|/lib/modules-load.d
 18 ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=|/usr/lib/modules-load.d
 19 ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=|/usr/local/lib/modules-load.d
 20 ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=|/etc/modules-load.d
 21 ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=|/run/modules-load.d
 22 ConditionKernelCommandLine=|modules-load
 23 ConditionKernelCommandLine=|rd.modules-load

I have a file in /etc/modules-load.d - /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf

It has one line:

vboxdrv

Nothing in the other locations.

So, should I just delete that virtualbox.conf file and rebuild the kernel?

Using mkinitcpio? Is there parameters I supply. I've seen it many times when a new kernel is installed but, do not remember exactly what it used.

I see this in /var/log/pacman.log:

==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
...
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
...
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful

Since the kernel is the latest:

[cavsfan@ArchLinux ~]$ uname -r
4.20.6-arch1-1-ARCH

Would it be this to rebuild the kernel?

cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

# pacman -U linux-4.20.6.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz linux-headers-4.20.6.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

I got that from how to downgrade packages but, I figured it should work to re-install the existing kernel.

Thanks for your help!

Slithery · 2019-02-01 18:12:44

Just delete the virtualbox.conf file. That's it.

Cavsfan · 2019-02-02 22:35:11

Slithery wrote:

Just delete the virtualbox.conf file. That's it.

That did the trick. I thought it would be more complicated but, that worked great.

Thank you!

2ManyDogs · 2019-02-02 23:23:49

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#1 2019-02-01 00:19:46

[SOLVED] Uninstall virtualbox - Now get Failed to find 'vboxdrv'

#2 2019-02-01 01:02:44

Re: [SOLVED] Uninstall virtualbox - Now get Failed to find 'vboxdrv'

#3 2019-02-01 18:05:36

Re: [SOLVED] Uninstall virtualbox - Now get Failed to find 'vboxdrv'

#4 2019-02-01 18:12:44

Re: [SOLVED] Uninstall virtualbox - Now get Failed to find 'vboxdrv'

#5 2019-02-02 22:35:11

Re: [SOLVED] Uninstall virtualbox - Now get Failed to find 'vboxdrv'

#6 2019-02-02 23:23:49

Re: [SOLVED] Uninstall virtualbox - Now get Failed to find 'vboxdrv'

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