Comment 18 for bug 1758946

Hello, LocutusOfBorg.

I am absolutely certain that you are right in telling that line #8 of file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/98vboxadd-xclient has never read
   true # "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running.
on Ubuntu 16.04.

Yet, I am absolutely certain, too, that I have checked the file on my Linux Mint 18.1 while version 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 was still on the disk and right before it got uninstalled. And the line read as I have quoted.
Plus, I had not tinkered around with any file, installed as part of virtualbox-guest.

So you may be right that this change may have been applied by the Linux Mint makers. Guess they will have had a reason.

Why?
On my Mint 18.1 xfce, by now, the 3 virtualbox-guest packages version 5.1.34-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 are present, i.e. they have been installed via Synaptic; and the machine seems to work correctly so far. But 60 min. uptime is not really very long.
It works, because I have reverted line #8 to what I had found in file 98vboxadd-xclient of the previous version.

Seems a bit as if the "early" notify-send invocation may be what triggers some misbehaviour on Mint 18.x. (The same notify-send still works without issues on Mint 17.x by the way.)

I do understand that this looks like a Linux Mint internal issue and that you are not the person who has got to clear it up.

Cheers,
Karl