initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed

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niilav
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initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed

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I have installed virtualbox on Debian 11 with the kernel updated to 5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (installed to solve the problem with the wifi card) and I have this problem (before with kernel 5.10 I didn't have it):

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invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
● virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/virtualbox; generated)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-01-17 13:18:26 CET; 9ms ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Process: 3160 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 52ms


ene 17 13:18:26 DESKDEB-HP systemd[1]: Starting LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module...
ene 17 13:18:26 DESKDEB-HP virtualbox[3160]: Loading VirtualBox kernel modules...No suitable module for running kernel found ...
ene 17 13:18:26 DESKDEB-HP virtualbox[3170]:  failed!
ene 17 13:18:26 DESKDEB-HP virtualbox[3171]:  failed!
ene 17 13:18:26 DESKDEB-HP systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
ene 17 13:18:26 DESKDEB-HP systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
ene 17 13:18:26 DESKDEB-HP systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module.
How can I solve it?

Thanks in advance!!
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Re: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed

Post by scottgus1 »

Not a Linux guru, but I'd suspect that if you upgraded the host kernel, you should uninstall Virtualbox, re-run the prerequisites https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02. ... nux-prereq, then install official Virtualbox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads. Note that the distro forks aren't supported on this forum.
niilav
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Re: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed

Post by niilav »

Actually the installation was done after installing the new kernel.
Thanks, I'll check the documentation to see what it says...
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