Web service won't start after update

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wesleykonrad
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Web service won't start after update

Post by wesleykonrad »

I just updated to virtualbox 6.1.26r145957

vboxweb-service fails to start.

vboxweb-service.service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxweb-service.sh; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2021-07-29 06:57:19 CDT; 15min ago
Process: 8937 ExecStart=/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxweb-service.sh start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jul 29 06:57:19 blackbox systemd[1]: Starting vboxweb-service.service...
Jul 29 06:57:19 blackbox vboxweb-service.sh[8937]: vboxweb-service.sh: Starting VirtualBox web service.
Jul 29 06:57:19 blackbox vboxweb-service.sh[8937]: vboxweb-service.sh: failed: VirtualBox web service failed to start.
Jul 29 06:57:19 blackbox systemd[1]: vboxweb-service.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 29 06:57:19 blackbox systemd[1]: vboxweb-service.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 29 06:57:19 blackbox systemd[1]: Failed to start vboxweb-service.service.

system is running debian
Linux 4.19.0-17-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.194-3 (2021-07-18) x86_64
Slimius
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Re: Web service won't start after update

Post by Slimius »

I have the same issue on Debian (version 10.10, kernel 4.19.0-17-amd64). Previous versions worked without a problem.

This error appears after manually running the script:

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root@server:/usr/lib/virtualbox# ./vboxweb-service.sh start
vboxweb-service.sh: Starting VirtualBox web service.
start-stop-daemon: unable to stat /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv (No such file or directory)
vboxweb-service.sh: failed: VirtualBox web service failed to start.
umatz
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Re: Web service won't start after update

Post by umatz »

Same here (update to VirtualBox 6.1.24-145767 on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS). Reason for the startup service failing: the file /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv is missing!

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user@server:/var/log$ ls -l /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv': No such file or directory
umatz
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Re: Web service won't start after update

Post by umatz »

Last edited by scottgus1 on 29. Jul 2021, 20:05, edited 2 times in total.
Reason: activated ticket link
wesleykonrad
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Re: Web service won't start after update

Post by wesleykonrad »

umatz wrote:
 Edit:  
See ticket 20479 (i am not allowed to post a link to www_virtualbox_org/ticket/ 20479 )
Yep, the workaround worked for me.

Thanks @umatz
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