After upgrading my distro, the dkms was not updated, the headers where not installed automatically and vbox was failing.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: virtualbox-qt 4.2.16-dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-36.57-generic 3.5.7.14
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-36-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Aug 6 11:16:06 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-01 (36 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment windoze --startvm 253b6f06-4b44-4bd1-8194-6be883e53d8c --no-startvm-errormsgbox
ProcEnviron:
TERM=linux
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: virtualbox
StacktraceTop:
qt_message_output(QtMsgType, char const*) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
qFatal(char const*, ...) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
TrustedError () from /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so
?? ()
Title: VirtualBox crashed with SIGABRT in qt_message_output()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.