Virtual Box OSE NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)

Okay... I went into synaptic package manager and marked the whole thing for reinstall with the dkms package added for an install. Apparently I didn't have it installed. Then I started virtualbox ose and it s working.

Okay... I went into synaptic package manager and marked the whole thing for reinstall with the dkms package added for an install. Apparently I didn't have it installed. Then I started virtualbox ose and it s working.

Are you sure you ran "modprobe vboxdrv"? It looks like you meant to paste in "modprobe vboxdrv" but instead pasted in:

Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
Machine
Interface:
IMachine {662c175e-a69d-40b8-a77a-1d719d0ab062}

In Ubuntu, the last text that was *selected* is pasted by pressing the middle mouse button, and the last text explicitly copied to the clipboard is pasted with Edit > Paste, right click > Paste, or (in the Terminal) Ctrl+Shift+V.

First, check to make sure you have the virtualbox-ose-dkms package installed, by running this command:

apt-cache policy virtualbox-ose-dkms

If you don't have it, you can install it:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-dkms

(You may be prompted for your password while running that command; as you enter it, you won't see any placeholder characters like *, but that is not a problem, just key it in and press enter.)

Once you are sure you have that package installed, then it's time to run "modprobe vboxdrv" as root. Since you're running it as root, just running that command wouldn't be sufficient--you have to prepend it with "sudo " in order to run it as root. (See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo if you want an explanation for how this works.) So this is the command you need to run:

sudo modprobe vboxdrv

That will likely work, fixing your problem. If it does, you can mark this question as Solved. If it doesn't, please select all the text in the Terminal (Edit > Select All), copy it to the clipboard (Edit > Copy), and paste it here.

Sorry Daire Conley, I didn't see that you'd already solved this problem. My post can be disregarded (though it does explain what you would need to do in order to correctly follow those instructions, should it ever be necessary to use them in the future).

I had the same problem and followed your instructions (Eliah) but I still get the same error

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Console
Interface: IConsole {515e8e8d-f932-4d8e-9f32-79a52aead882}

using Ubuntu 11.04. any ideas? Thanks

@micalith
Please start a new question about your problem (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ose/+addquestion), so that its status can be tracked better (this problem is marked Solved, but your new question will go between Open, Needs Information, and Answered statuses as appropriate, notifying others who may be able to help of what is going on), and because you may be experiencing a different problem from the problem here (especially considering that the solution here did not work for you). You can post a link here to your new question and a link in your new question to this question, but your new question should be reasonably self-contained. Please go ahead and subscribe me to the new question as well.

In the new question, please provide all the information you have about the problem. Please include the full and exact text from the Terminal, which you can obtain by selecting all of it (Edit > Select All), copying it to the clipboard (Edit > Copy), and pasting it into your question.

Hello,

I face the same Prblem as mentioned above: while startting the vm the following Error appears:

Für die virtuelle Maschine Übersetzungsbox konnte keine neue Sitzung eröffnet werden.

The virtual machine 'Übersetzungsbox' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1.

Fehlercode:NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Komponente:Machine
Interface:IMachine {5eaa9319-62fc-4b0a-843c-0cb1940f8a91}

After following every advise I got this

christian@christian-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy virtualbox-os-dkms
N: Paket virtualbox-os-dkms kann nicht gefunden werden
christian@christian-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-dkms
[sudo] password for christian:
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen... Fertig
Die folgenden Pakete wurden automatisch installiert und werden nicht mehr benötigt:
  kde-l10n-de python-mako gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 libdiscid0
  language-pack-kde-de language-pack-kde-en gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10
  gir1.2-ubuntuoneui-3.0 language-pack-kde-en-base kde-l10n-engb libgpod4
  rhythmbox-data guile-1.8-libs libdmapsharing-3.0-2 language-pack-kde-de-base
  python-markupsafe libubuntuoneui-3.0-1 librhythmbox-core5 media-player-info
  libgpod-common linux-headers-3.5.0-23 gir1.2-rb-3.0
  linux-headers-3.5.0-23-generic libmusicbrainz3-6
Verwenden Sie »apt-get autoremove«, um sie zu entfernen.
Die folgenden NEUEN Pakete werden installiert:
  virtualbox-ose-dkms
0 aktualisiert, 1 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.
Es müssen 22,2 kB an Archiven heruntergeladen werden.
Nach dieser Operation werden 121 kB Plattenplatz zusätzlich benutzt.
Hole:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/universe virtualbox-ose-dkms all 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2 [22,2 kB]
Es wurden 22,2 kB in 0 s geholt (123 kB/s)
Vormals nicht ausgewähltes Paket virtualbox-ose-dkms wird gewählt.
(Lese Datenbank ... 289987 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Entpacken von virtualbox-ose-dkms (aus .../virtualbox-ose-dkms_4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2_all.deb) ...
virtualbox-ose-dkms (4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2) wird eingerichtet ...
christian@christian-desktop:~$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.

Any help would be appreciated