It helped and fixed my issue.PatLher wrote:Hello all
Just hit same problem and was able to at least correct it without any reboot and wanted to share in case it might be useful (and keeping a trace for me too).
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It helped and fixed my issue.PatLher wrote:Hello all
Just hit same problem and was able to at least correct it without any reboot and wanted to share in case it might be useful (and keeping a trace for me too).
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Frankly, Linux itself is not new-user-friendly to me, as I have seen in my experience with it as a newer user. Way too much command line, ultimately ending in "throw the following series of seemingly random characters at the terminal etc..." Explaining how to use Virtualbox on Linux can therefore be rather rough.Alfa_Sky wrote:Please have mercy on average users on Linux
Thank you all, this one work like a charm, but after restart the problem persist and i need to do all over again. Could some one indicate which is "the_bad_vbox_drv_file" we need to remove after finish all the steps?shukebeta wrote:after didYou can reboot or shutdown your system, this problem will no longer happen again.Code: Select all
sudo rm the_bad_vbox_drv_file
Wtfisoracle wrote:Hey, I did this method and it works fine but the problem is that everytime I shutdown or restart my pc I have to do the process againPatLher wrote:Hello all
Just hit same problem and was able to at least correct it without any reboot and wanted to share in case it might be useful (and keeping a trace for me too).
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sudo apt remove virtualbox-dkms
sudo apt purge virtualbox-dkms*
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sudo dpkg -i vbox.deb
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sudo apt remove virtualbox-dkms
sudo apt install virtualbox-dkms
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sudo apt install virtualbox-dkms
jiggersplat wrote:sudo apt install virtualbox-dkms
Just reminding everyone that official Virtualbox from www.virtualbox.org does not use dkms. Anyone whose Virtualbox needs to install dkms is using a fork of Virtualbox provided by and supported by the Linux distro.hilde wrote:sudo apt install virtualbox-dkms
A simple solution for Ubuntu users that doesn't require much coding is to reboot your host machine, remove all VirtualBox packages (using the code bellow in Terminal), and finally reinstall VirtualBox using Ubuntu's Software Center.Alfa_Sky wrote:Please have mercy on average users on Linux (in my case Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release).
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sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-\*
FWIW, Ubuntu provides VirtualBox in several distinct packages. One of them is named virtualbox and contains the main binaries. Another one of them is named virtualbox-ext-pack and this one downloads the one-and-only VirtualBox Extension Pack from the Oracle download site during its installation and/or update. If you keep both packages at the same version, you won't run into mismatch issues regarding the VirtualBox Extension Pack.mpack wrote:And I would note that third party builds do not come with the PUEL licensed extension pack mentioned above, and using a third party build with the official extension pack is probably what causes this mismatch problem in the first place.