trust me, I really don't have the slightest idea what "other posts" means
My apologies, the forum wouldn't allow me to post links on my first post here.
I followed the instructions following the post entitled "[Solved 5.2.6] Freezes on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial, Dell Optiplex 9010" , because my VB also started to freeze everything on my laptop a couple of weeks ago. So I removed my distro's VB with:
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apt purge virtualbox virtualbox-qt virtualbox-ext-pack
Then I added /debian xenial contrib to my sources.list, updated my repos, and installed VB 5.2.6 . After running /sbin/vboxconfig:
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mowglie@flappi-top ~ $ sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
and launching VB, I get the following error:
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I agree that it indicates that something is not OK with my distro's packages, but I don't know how to clean it better than using apt purge ...
Thanks for your help!