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  1. Bug #1758946
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1758946

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Karlchen (karlchen) wrote :

Hello, LocutusOfBorg.

In version virtualbox-guest-x11 (5.1.34-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2) line 26 of the file
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/98vboxadd-xclient
now reads:
   notify-send "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running. Exiting."

In version virtualbox-guest-x11 (5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2) line 26 of the file
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/98vboxadd-xclient
still read:
   true # "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running. Exiting."

It is imaginable that it is the notify-send is what makes Linux Mint 18.x malfunction.
Maybe reverting to the old statement
   true # "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running. Exiting."

would work around the issue.

Sadly, I cannot really test myself at the moment. The latest update of mintupdate has not only uninstalled the 3 virtualbox-guest-* packages, but also made sure they cannot be re-installed at all.
Unless I find a way of reverting this specific package ban I may not be able to try myself at all.

Regards,
Karl