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hendry

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[SOLVED] Update and my Virtualbox stopped working.. why?

First, it's not easy to tell what's gone wrong from the journal:

~$ 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 Mon 2016-12-12 09:43:36 SGT; 59min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
           man:modules-load.d(5)
  Process: 1330 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 1330 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
      CPU: 2ms

Dec 12 09:43:36 teefour systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules...
Dec 12 09:43:36 teefour systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 12 09:43:36 teefour systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
Dec 12 09:43:36 teefour systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dec 12 09:43:36 teefour systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I could swear this used to work. Why did it break?

~$ sudo /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load
Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'
Failed to find module 'vboxpci'
Failed to find module 'vboxnetadp'
Failed to find module 'vboxnetflt'
~$ uname -a
Linux teefour 4.8.13-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 9 07:24:34 CET 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Virtualbox tells me to run:

sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

But I don't have such a binary on my system and I'm not sure where it's packaged.

Last edited by hendry (2016-12-13 03:47:08)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Update and my Virtualbox stopped working.. why?

Is your system fully up-to-date? Please post the output of

pacman -Qs virtualbox

EDIT: please also post the output of

uname -a; pacman -Q linux

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hendry

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Re: [SOLVED] Update and my Virtualbox stopped working.. why?

~$ pacman -Qs virtualbox
local/virtualbox 5.1.10-1
    Powerful x86 virtualization for enterprise as well as home use
local/virtualbox-host-dkms 5.1.10-1
    VirtualBox Host kernel modules sources
~$ uname -a; pacman -Q linux
Linux teefour 4.8.13-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 9 07:24:34 CET 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux
linux 4.8.13-1

eschwartz

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Re: [SOLVED] Update and my Virtualbox stopped working.. why?

So... the dkms hook should have run after you upgraded the kernel. But what I want to know is, why don't you use the binary modules which are built against the stock kernel? You only need the dkms version if you are using a non-repo kernel!

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jf25

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Registered: 2015-07-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Update and my Virtualbox stopped working.. why?

Same happened to me. After pacman -Syu and restarting the system, systemd was showing a message that it failed to load the Virtualbox module on system startup. And indeed, Virtualbox did not work anymore. So I just triggered rebuilding of the dkms modules manually by

pacman -S linux

Et voilà, Virtualbox is working again.

hendry

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Re: [SOLVED] Update and my Virtualbox stopped working.. why?

I've moved to `local/virtualbox-host-modules-arch` & rebooted. Virtualbox now works again. Peace and harmony has been restored. Thanks guys,