Regarding the original service not starting problem. If I do a clean 18.04 install everything works OK. (Apart from Lubuntu where I couldn't get the installer to work.)
If I do a clean 17.10 install without the guest packages because of bug #1683043, upgrade to 18.04, install dpkg-dev, install the guest packages everything works. If I do a clean 16.04 install, add the guest packages, upgrade to 18.04 during which the guest packages are removed, re add the guest packages then Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Xubuntu work. For Lubuntu and Ubuntu Mate the virtualbox-guest-utils.service does not start automatically but can be started manually. This situation is a bit artificial as the packages shouldn't be removed during the upgrade. I suggest we revisit this problem when the upgrade package removal problem is resolved. -- 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
