[Failed] Failed to start LSB: Virtual Box Additions

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For the last one or two weeks I noticed a FAILED message during boot up. It says:
[Failed] Failed to start LSB: Virtual Box Additions

What does that mean? And how do I correct it?

This did not happen before as I had no FAILED messages during boot before. I am
running OpenSUSE 12.1 64-bit KDE with all packaages (including VirtualBox) updated
to the latest. VirtualBox actually runs but not very stably and some VMs abort once in
a while but not while doing anything in particular.

As a side note, I noticed there is no /var/log/boot on my system, only /var/log/messages
so I could not find the offending message in my logs.

Please let me know if more information is required to diagnose the problem.

Many thanks!

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You still have the guest-additions package for Vbox installed. Remove that and the message will be gone. It fails due to a version mismatch since you installed the latest version. That could very well be the cause of the instability. Please post output of


rpm -qa | grep ualbox
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Hi,

Thanks for taking a look. Does that mean I do NOT need the guest-additions? Or that I need another version?
Strangely I thought the guest-additions were installed in the VMs not the Host :\

Here it is the output you asked for:

rpm -qa | grep ualbox
virtualbox-qt-4.1.4-3.2.3.x86_64
virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-4.1.4_k3.1.0_1.1-3.2.3.x86_64
virtualbox-guest-tools-4.1.4-3.2.3.x86_64
virtualbox-guest-x11-4.1.4-3.2.3.x86_64
virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop-4.1.4_k3.1.0_1.1-3.2.3.x86_64
virtualbox-4.1.4-3.2.3.x86_64

If you say I do not need those than I’ll go for the uninstall.

Thanks again!

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AFAIK you don’t need the guest stuff on the host. Must say though, that I use the version provided by Oracle (need full USB support for some VM).

Could you also post output of


uname -a
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Sure, here it is:

Linux quasar 3.1.9-1.4-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 27 08:55:10 UTC 2012 (efb5ff4) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks again!

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Does that help?

Also, which of all those 6 packages are the Guest Additions tools for the Host (the ones I presumable do not need)?
My Guests do depend on the Guest Additions inside and, I presume, whatever those communicate too, so I am afraid
of uninstalling the wrong package and rendering my VMs useless.

Thanks in advance!