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I am trialing various flavours of Ubuntu in Virtualbox virtual machines
- Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Mate.  All version 18.04, running
on Kubuntu 17.10 host.  All set up identically as far as I can tell,
with virtualbox-guest-dkms, virtualbox-guest-utils and virtualbox-
guest-x11 installed in each guest.

All work fine except that shared folders does not work in 2 of the VMs.
It works in Xubuntu, Ubuntu but not in Lubuntu and Ubuntu Mate.  On
investigation it appears that the virtualbox-guest-utils.service is not
started automatically on the two versions not working.  If I start it
manually everything is OK.

Here is the status - 
systemctl status virtualbox-guest-utils.service 
● virtualbox-guest-utils.service - Virtualbox guest utils
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/virtualbox-guest-utils.service; enabled; 
vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Looking in journalctl there are no messages showing that the service
tried to start and failed.  There is nothing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: virtualbox-guest-utils 5.2.8-dfsg-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-10.11-generic 4.15.3
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Mon Mar  5 09:53:02 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-23 (1958 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-03-04 (0 days ago)

** Affects: dkms (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug bionic i386
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virtualbox-guest-utils.service not starting
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