Public bug reported: Hello Ubuntu Team, I already reported one of bug related to my new Ubuntu 16.04 installation [1], which has to do with the touchpad not working at all after fresh installation of ubuntu 16.04.
Now I installed the Oracle Virtualbox VM following the instructions given here [2], however it failed to boot, throwing this error-message [3]. The output of 'sudo /sbin/vboxconfig' is given in [4], the dmesg output could be find in attachment as text file. What has been asked in the instructions does not have any output: pooja@X1-Carbon-6:~/Downloads$ cat /proc/version_signature > version.log pooja@X1-Carbon-6:~/Downloads$ sudo lspci -vnvn > lspci-vnvn.log pooja@X1-Carbon-6:~/Downloads$ Any guidence how to fix this bug is appreciated. Thanks [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1791921 [2] https://tecadmin.net/install-oracle-virtualbox-on-ubuntu/ [3] ******* pooja@X1-Carbon-6:~/Downloads$ virtualbox WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module available for the current kernel (4.15.0-34-generic) or it failed to load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by sudo /sbin/vboxconfig You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed. [4] ******** pooja@X1-Carbon-6:~/Downloads$ sudo /sbin/vboxconfig [sudo] password for pooja: vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services. vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services. vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules. vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why. There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1791935 Title: Oracle VirtualBox failed to boot Status in linux package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hello Ubuntu Team, I already reported one of bug related to my new Ubuntu 16.04 installation [1], which has to do with the touchpad not working at all after fresh installation of ubuntu 16.04. Now I installed the Oracle Virtualbox VM following the instructions given here [2], however it failed to boot, throwing this error-message [3]. The output of 'sudo /sbin/vboxconfig' is given in [4], the dmesg output could be find in attachment as text file. What has been asked in the instructions does not have any output: pooja@X1-Carbon-6:~/Downloads$ cat /proc/version_signature > version.log pooja@X1-Carbon-6:~/Downloads$ sudo lspci -vnvn > lspci-vnvn.log pooja@X1-Carbon-6:~/Downloads$ Any guidence how to fix this bug is appreciated. Thanks [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1791921 [2] https://tecadmin.net/install-oracle-virtualbox-on-ubuntu/ [3] ******* pooja@X1-Carbon-6:~/Downloads$ virtualbox WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module available for the current kernel (4.15.0-34-generic) or it failed to load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by sudo /sbin/vboxconfig You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed. [4] ******** pooja@X1-Carbon-6:~/Downloads$ sudo /sbin/vboxconfig [sudo] password for pooja: vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services. vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services. vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules. vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why. There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1791935/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp