[FAILED] Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils.

On my side, everything seems to work very well but I have not tested all the possibilities of the distribution. I am going/learning slowly but surely :wink:

I launched the command lines one after the other and here are the outputs :

user@host:~$ sudo systemctl status virtualbox-guest-utils

● virtualbox-guest-utils.service - Virtualbox guest utils
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/virtualbox-guest-utils.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-09-18 10:26:04 UTC; 11min ago
  Process: 596 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-utils start (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

sep 18 10:26:03 host systemd[1]: Starting Virtualbox guest utils...
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils.
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Unit entered failed state.
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

user@host:~$ sudo systemctl restart virtualbox-guest-utils

Job for virtualbox-guest-utils.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status virtualbox-guest-utils.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
user@host:~$ 

user@host:~$ sudo systemctl status virtualbox-guest-utils

● virtualbox-guest-utils.service - Virtualbox guest utils
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/virtualbox-guest-utils.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-09-18 10:39:31 UTC; 45s ago
  Process: 2596 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-utils start (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: Starting Virtualbox guest utils...
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils.
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Unit entered failed state.
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

user@host:~$ sudo journalctl -u virtualbox-guest-utils | cat

-- Logs begin at Tue 2018-09-18 10:25:54 UTC, end at Tue 2018-09-18 10:40:45 UTC. --
sep 18 10:26:03 host systemd[1]: Starting Virtualbox guest utils...
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils.
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Unit entered failed state.
sep 18 10:26:04 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: Starting Virtualbox guest utils...
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualbox guest utils.
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Unit entered failed state.
sep 18 10:39:31 host systemd[1]: virtualbox-guest-utils.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

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