VirtualBox crashed with SIGABRT in qt_message_output()

[James Michael DuPont]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Christian Kirbach (christian-kirbach-e)]

I had this problem when upgrading 14.10 to 15.04beta
Manually installing virtualbox-dkms and "modprobe vboxdrv" solved the issue.

[Christian Kirbach (christian-kirbach-e)]

nazgul@rivendell:~$ LANG=C dpkg -la virtualbox*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==================-==============-==============-==========================================
ii virtualbox 4.3.22-dfsg-1 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - base binarie
un virtualbox-2.0 <none> <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-2.1 <none> <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-2.2 <none> <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-3.0 <none> <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-3.1 <none> <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-3.2 <none> <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-4.0 <none> <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-4.1 <none> <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-4.2 <none> <none> (no description available)
ii virtualbox-dkms 4.3.22-dfsg-1 all x86 virtualization solution - kernel modul
un virtualbox-guest-a <none> <none> (no description available)
ii virtualbox-guest-a 4.3.22-1 all guest additions iso image for VirtualBox
ii virtualbox-qt 4.3.22-dfsg-1 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - Qt based use
un virtualbox-source <none> <none> (no description available)

[Todd Cole (tcole3737)]

dug a bit and found that Virtualbox could not locate a vm with UUID XXXXXXX-XXXX-XXX-XX__
 I then looked in /home/VirtualBox VMs found a extra file named Lubuntu Appliance in addition to the normal Lubuntu VM
as a test I moved it and all errors are now gone. I suspect it might be a fail start or shutdown VM report/log but it works so
I am happy