[solved] Virtualbox guest additions stopped working

Hi,
I got some trouble after an upgrade of kernel yesterday. Virtualbox guest additions doesn't work any longer, and I have tried both downgrading virtualbox-guest-additions and the new linux that got pushed yesterday, but it's still not working.
Is there some know issue related to this?
Do anyone have information on how to trace errors with Virtualbox, or any guide on how to fix this.
I have also tried a reinstall of the modules without success.
Thanks.
Last edited by grrrm (2014-10-08 15:45:45)

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