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

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 2:11 PM Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3 at gmail.com> 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*'`.
>
> 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.

Thanks Aaron. Done:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/2056605>.

It is lite on details, but I did not spend a lot of time with it. I've
seen it before with VirtualBox.

Jeff