for the service not starting, I don't know where to look, feel free to open a new bug even if I don't know how to fix it yet
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to dkms in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1753430 Title: virtualbox-guest-utils.service not starting Status in dkms package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: I am trialing various flavours of Ubuntu in Virtualbox virtual machines - Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Mate. All version 18.04, running on Kubuntu 17.10 host. All set up identically as far as I can tell, with virtualbox-guest-dkms, virtualbox-guest-utils and virtualbox-guest-x11 installed in each guest. All work fine except that shared folders does not work in 2 of the VMs. It works in Xubuntu, Ubuntu but not in Lubuntu and Ubuntu Mate. On investigation it appears that the virtualbox-guest-utils.service is not started automatically on the two versions not working. If I start it manually everything is OK. Here is the status - systemctl status virtualbox-guest-utils.service ● virtualbox-guest-utils.service - Virtualbox guest utils Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/virtualbox-guest-utils.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) Looking in journalctl there are no messages showing that the service tried to start and failed. There is nothing. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: virtualbox-guest-utils 5.2.8-dfsg-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-10.11-generic 4.15.3 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: LXDE Date: Mon Mar 5 09:53:02 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-23 (1958 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: virtualbox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-03-04 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dkms/+bug/1753430/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
