I tried looking into this myself but I couldn’t really find much about this error. The only solutions I could find didn’t work for me. The first one was to use mokutil but at the point where I was supposed to run sudo mokutil -- it gives me the error message “Failed to get file status, MOK.der” even though I did everything it told me to do. The other one was to disable secure boot and then run sudo '/sbin/vboxconfig' but even though it looked like it worked, I’m still getting the error message. I have re-enabled secure boot, so you don’t have to worry about that.
Is there something else I can try or does VirtualBox not work in Linux Mint for some reason?
Try
Then reboot your machine. Virtualbox needs the kernel headers to work.
I tried that but It’s giving me the error message
E: Unable to locate package kernel-headers.My bad, I haven’t run Debian based distros for a while. Run this instead
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
I’ve edited my comment
It’s telling me that they are already installed:
j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) [sudo] password for j: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done linux-headers-5.15.0-88-generic is already the newest version (5.15.0-88.98). linux-headers-5.15.0-88-generic set to manually installed. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: brave-keyring libu2f-udev linux-headers-5.15.0-76 linux-headers-5.15.0-76-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-78 linux-headers-5.15.0-78-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-79 linux-headers-5.15.0-79-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-82 linux-headers-5.15.0-82-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-83 linux-headers-5.15.0-83-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-84 linux-headers-5.15.0-84-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-86 linux-headers-5.15.0-86-generic linux-image-5.15.0-76-generic linux-image-5.15.0-78-generic linux-image-5.15.0-79-generic linux-image-5.15.0-82-generic linux-image-5.15.0-83-generic linux-image-5.15.0-84-generic linux-image-5.15.0-86-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-76-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-78-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-79-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-82-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-83-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-84-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-86-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-76-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-78-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-79-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-82-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-83-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-84-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-86-generic Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.deleted by creator
Then restart you machine. That normally needs to be done after installing virtualbox. See if it works.
I already restarted my computer twice after installing it, is there any reason I would have restart my computer a third time?
Ok then, it’s probably the dkms shitting the bed. Follow this
Is there something specific from that link that I’m supposed to use because I tired the top solution and it just gave me a bunch of error messages:
j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` dkms virtualbox-dkms [sudo] password for j: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done dkms is already the newest version (2.8.7-2ubuntu2.1mint1). build-essential is already the newest version (12.9ubuntu3). linux-headers-5.15.0-88-generic is already the newest version (5.15.0-88.98). The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libqt5help5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5xml5 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: libgsoap-2.8.117 liblzf1 libvncserver1 virtualbox virtualbox-qt Suggested packages: vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso The following packages will be REMOVED: virtualbox-7.0 The following NEW packages will be installed: libgsoap-2.8.117 liblzf1 libvncserver1 virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/46.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 43.0 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable (Reading database ... 642834 files and directories currently installed.) Removing virtualbox-7.0 (7.0.12-159484~Ubuntu~jammy) ... debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-7.0 (--remove): installed virtualbox-7.0 package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1 dpkg: too many errors, stopping vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why. There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root. If your system is using EFI Secure Boot you may need to sign the kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information. Errors were encountered while processing: virtualbox-7.0 Processing was halted because there were too many errors. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxdrv': Operation not permittedYou didn’t clarify you were running the Oracle release of Virtualbox 7.0. I am running Virtualbox 7.0 on Linux Mint 21.2 without issue, but my computer is too old for EFI. Those instructions are for the community release, which has the components of virtualbox split into separate packages.
I don’t have any good answers for you, but I would recommend you update your post to include the fact that you’re running Oracle’s packages, and the version of Linux Mint you’re using.