Kali Linux Failed to start vboxadd-service.service

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JWBakerIV
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Kali Linux Failed to start vboxadd-service.service

Post by JWBakerIV »

I have been through numerous steps and have not found any solutions to a startup problem.

Failed to start vboxadd-service.service

I have updated and upgraded and installed current linux headers and reinstalled guest additions several times to no avail.

What is causing this service to not start?

If I run systemctl status vboxadd-service.service, the guest addition service starts, and then line immediately following says
vboxadd-service.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1/FAILURE
Failed to start vboxadd-service.service

From what I can tell, guest additions is working, but I cannot get this startup failure to clear.
Perryg
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Re: Kali Linux Failed to start vboxadd-service.service

Post by Perryg »

Post the guests log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.
edrag
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Re: Kali Linux Failed to start vboxadd-service.service

Post by edrag »

Perryg wrote:Post the guests log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.
I encountered the same problem as JWBakerIV.

Here attached the compressed
Kali-Linux-2017.2-vbox-amd64-2017-10-05-01-35-45.log.zip
log file
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