6.5.0-25-generic kernel broke due to VirtualBox; don't install

Aaron Rainbolt arraybolt3 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 8 20:41:12 UTC 2024


On 3/8/24 13:09, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> On 3/8/24 09:56, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> A heads up... Installing the latest HWE kernel, 6.5.0-25-generic,
>> broke due to VirtualBox. Boot hung with the message "Failed to start
>> LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module."
>>
>> If you have VirtualBox installed, you should boot to an old kernel,
>> remove the 6.5.0-25 kernel, and block the kernel package with
>> something like `sudo apt-mark hold '*6.5.0-25-generic*'`.
>>
>> Jeff
> Could you report this on Launchpad against the virtualbox package? 
> That way it can get greater visibility. If not, no problem, I'll try 
> to verify the issue and report it when I can.
OK, so I did some testing, and I cannot reproduce this issue. I'm able 
to have Virtualbox and the 6.5.0-25-generic kernel installed at the same 
time - my physical system boots up just fine, and a Tiny Core Linux VM 
runs pretty well.

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Aaron Rainbolt
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