vboxclient the virtualbox kernel service is not running

[smartyuk]

Hello,

I have been running 5.0.14 r105127 with no issues
On Windows 7 with 2 Oracle OEL 6 Vm's (2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64)

did a yum update, rebooted then had a popup just after I log in as my user

"vboxclient the virtualbox kernel service is not running"

Bidirectional copy / paste stopped working and the mouse is fixed to the guest window.

I have tried to run

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup

but seems to be stuck uninstalling the lib modules

so something from Yum update has toasted vbox guest

any ideas how to get it working again, I have tried to reinstall the Guest Additions, but seems to be doing nothing apart from trying to remove the old version

Thanks
Martin

[mpack]

I'm having a problem seeing what makes this question appropriate for "Windows Hosts" - yum updates are rare there. Moving you to "Linux Guests".

[smartyuk]

sorry clicked the wrong forum for windows guests, yes it should be linux guess, sorry for my error...new to vbox

I managed to fix it

# export MAKE='/usr/bin/gmake -i'
# cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_5.0.14_105127
# ./VBoxWindowsAdditions.run