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I'm trying to run VirtualBox in Linux Mint but I keep getting an error message about Kernel drivers. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by vortexal@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I tried looking into this myself but I couldn't really find much about this error. The only solutions I could find didn't work for me. The first one was to use mokutil but at the point where I was supposed to run sudo mokutil --import MOK.der it gives me the error message "Failed to get file status, MOK.der" even though I did everything it told me to do. The other one was to disable secure boot and then run sudo '/sbin/vboxconfig' but even though it looked like it worked, I'm still getting the error message. I have re-enabled secure boot, so you don't have to worry about that.

Is there something else I can try or does VirtualBox not work in Linux Mint for some reason?

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[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That doesn't work for me as they give me error messages:

j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo apt remove virtualbox-dkms
[sudo] password for j:  
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package 'virtualbox-dkms' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo apt-get install make gcc build-essential linux-headers-'uname -r' dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-uname -r
j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo apt install virtualbox-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libqt5help5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5xml5 libsdl-ttf2.0-0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libgsoap-2.8.117 liblzf1 libvncserver1 virtualbox virtualbox-qt
Suggested packages:
  vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  virtualbox-7.0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgsoap-2.8.117 liblzf1 libvncserver1 virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/46.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 43.0 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
(Reading database ... 642834 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing virtualbox-7.0 (7.0.12-159484~Ubuntu~jammy) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-7.0 (--remove):
 installed virtualbox-7.0 package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.

There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up process, run
  /sbin/vboxconfig
as root.  If your system is using EFI Secure Boot you may need to sign the
kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load
them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-7.0
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess the "uname -r" part should be $(uname -r) but this isn't the problem with vbox IMO

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then just do the last step, see what happens.

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what you mean but it doesn't matter because VirtualBox still isn't working and I've decided to uninstall it and try some alternatives that people have mentioned.