[Errors] Error message after installing VirualBox Guest Additions 5.2.7 in Kubuntu 17.10.1

[Cetus]

Hi all,

I have Kubuntu 17.10.1 with all updates and upgrades (sudo apt-get update then upgrade then dist-upgrade) as of today's date, 19 January 2018.

It is installed as a Guest in a Windows 10 Pro x64 Host. VirtualBox version is 5.2.6, however the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run version is 5.2.7 as it's a fix to 5.2.6 that caused a black screen
in Kubuntu after installing then re-booting.

Now, as you all know, running the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run on a clean install of Kubuntu causes an error message that gcc, make, and perl are not installed. So I install that with

sudo apt-get install build-essential

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Then I run the

./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

and it installs with no error other than

"modprob vboxfs failed"

or something like that. However, that seems to be fine after a reboot since I can add myself to the vboxfs group with no problems.

The error message at every re-boot is

VBoxClient: VboxClient (seamless): failed to start. Stage: Setting guest IRQ filter mask Error: VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR

The Guest Additions seem to be partly working because the Kubuntu desktop (or login screen) window resizes to fit the VirtualBox window, which it does not do before Guest Additions are installed.

However, Drag-n-Drop, Copy and Paste, and mounting a shared folder do not work.

Does anyone else have a problem with this? I apologize if you all think this is strictly a VirtualBox issue with absolutely no bearing on Kubuntu 17.10.1. I'm just posting in hopes someone else has found and fixed this same problem.

Any more info needed will be promptly provided.

Thanks in advance.

Cetus

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[SpecialEd]

Did you remove the .iso from your optical drive under storage?

[Cetus]

I had not but I did just now and rebooted but the problem remains the same.

[mr_raider]

I thought guest additions did not work with 4.13 kernel.

[Snowhog]

In the VM, did you enable 3D Acceleration? If 'yes', try disabling it.

[Cetus]

In the VM, did you enable 3D Acceleration? If 'yes', try disabling it.

I did try that, yes. For a couple of days there the Guest Additions that came with the newest VirtualBox version 5.2.6 caused problems by booting to the
Guest and coming to nothing but a black screen. I was plagued with that until they quickly released a fix, Guest Additions 5.2.7, but a lot of people's symptoms
were able to be fixed by turning off 3D Acceleration. Mine did not. It booted to a black screen regardless.

However, the Guest Additions 5.2.7 work perfectly with a Linux Mint 18.3 Guest that I have, enabling folder sharing, Cut and Paste, and Drag-n-Drop for the first time ever.
This same version of Guest Additions, installed in the same way, cause the problem I mentioned only in Kubuntu for some reason.

I'm sure it's a very simple fix but I'm just not experienced enough to find it.

[Cetus]

As per mr_raider's suggestion above that the kernel version may be affecting the Guest Additions, I used ukuu to update the Kubuntu 17.10.1 to the very newest one, 4.14.13.

Happily, there are no more error messages either on the Desktop at login nor when running systemctl status vboxadd*.

Unhappily, it has caused a regression where 3D Acceleration has to be turned off. Otherwise, after about 5 seconds the desktop freezes. It does not boot to a black screen as before but the desktop becomes completely unusable.

I say the GUI desktop but it may be a complete system freeze because key combinations such as Ctrl-Alt-F1 for a TTY don't work either.

Thank you for the tips.

[chimak111]

I thought guest additions did not work with 4.13 kernel.

Most aspects of guest additions seem to be working for me with VBox Version 5.2.4 r119785 (Qt5.6.1) :

chimak@ckVB:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: ckVB Kernel: 4.13.0-25-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.2.0
          Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.11.95 (Qt 5.9.3) Distro: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)
Machine:   Device: oracle System: innotek product: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: N/A
          Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: N/A BIOS: innotek v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006

I haven't got drag-n-drop to work but that's not a deal-breaker.

[Cetus]

I haven't got drag-n-drop to work but that's not a deal-breaker.

I've been fiddling around again today and even Drag-n-Drop seems to work However, if I turn 3D Acceleration back on, it's game over. It will boot but there are visual anomalies for a few seconds, (such as the "Taskbar" at the bottom of the screen is not there) everything else works in slow motion (such as clicking on an icon seems for a second like it's going to work then doesn't) then system freezes. Completely unrecoverable. Reboot with the VirtualBox's menu at the top, Machine > Reset or Machine > ACPI Shutdown, turn off 3D Acceleration, everything seems fine, although a little slow. Tolerable.

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