VirtualBox crashes when starting a just defined OS

Bug #1613212 reported by John Rose
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Bug Description

VirtualBox crashes (screenshot attached) when starting a just defined OS (Windows 7 32-bit) before 'loading' the Windows 7 iso image to install Windows 7.

virtualbox-dkms package is installed. mdoprobe of vboxdrv gives:
john@NewLaptop:~$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
[sudo] password for john:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxdrv': Required key not available

My user is in the vboxusers group.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: virtualbox 5.0.24-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-34.53-generic 4.4.15
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Aug 15 09:45:04 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-25 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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John Rose (johnaaronrose) wrote :
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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

Hi, please try apt-get install --reinstall virtualbox-dkms, but it seems to be bug #1574300

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