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My question is a duplicate of VirtualBox not starting after kernel upgrade. My system configuration is as shown below. 

reclusiarch@reclusiarch-Inspiron-7520:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS"
reclusiarch@reclusiarch-Inspiron-7520:~$ uname -a
Linux reclusiarch-Inspiron-7520 4.4.0-116-generic #140~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 16 09:25:20 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I had already purged the repository ( https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test) before discovering that I could not install gcc-5 without the said respository for Ubuntu 14.04. My question are as follows: Is there a way to revert my virtualbox installation back to a working installation and if so, how I proceed? Thanks for not closing this question.

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I have 14.04 and use virtualbox.

On my system, gcc-version returns

gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4) 4.8.4

It comes from trusty-updates repository as shown here

gcc-4.8:
  Installed: 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4
  Candidate: 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4
  Version table:
 *** 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.8.2-19ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

After confirming that you have this version of the compiler, you need to remove and reinstall the latest kernel version using these commands (culled from the bug report)

sudo apt-get purge linux-headers-4.4.0-116 linux-headers-4.4.0-116-generic linux-image-4.4.0-116-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-116-generic linux-signed-image-4.4.0-116-generic

sudo apt-get install linux-generic linux-signed-generic

and reboot into the new kernel.

Finally you need to rebuild the vbox kernel driver now that you have the right kernel and right compiler

sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

There may be other compiler versions that work, but this one is proven to work.

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