VirtualBox does not start correctly after kernel update

Just recently I have been unable to start VirtualBox after a kernel update. That is to say it seems to be running, but displays nothing.
The following processes are listed: VirtualBox, VBoxSVC, VBoxSVC, VBoxXPCOMPCD
The following modules are loaded: vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp
Yesterday, when the same thing happened, I reinstalled VirtualBox and it worked correctly again.
I recently upgraded to systemd which has caused me some other problems, so that might have something to do with it
Cheers
Andrew
* Arch x86_64 up to date, NVidia proprietary drivers, AMD processor

Updated - Rebooted (systemd does hang on reboot or shutdown but turned PC off and restarted)
Confirmed that vbox modules are loaded:
vboxnetflt 16807 0
vboxnetadp 18419 0
vboxdrv 1823469 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
Started VirtualBox - nothing displayed.
ps -el shows
0 S 501 1036 614 0 80 0 - 111245 futex_ ? 00:00:00 VirtualBox
0 S 501 1050 1 0 80 0 - 29408 poll_s ? 00:00:00 VBoxXPCOMIPCD
0 S 501 1056 1 0 80 0 - 53178 futex_ ? 00:00:00 VBoxSVC
output as above
$ uname -a
Linux ezcool 3.6.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 29 09:49:00 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# pacman -Qi linux
Name : linux
Version : 3.6.4-1
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Licenses : GPL2
Groups : base
Provides : kernel26=3.6.4
Depends On : coreutils linux-firmware kmod mkinitcpio>=0.7
Optional Deps : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country
Required By : nvidia virtualbox-host-modules
Conflicts With : kernel26
Replaces : kernel26
Installed Size : 61124.00 KiB
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <[email protected]>
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Mon 29 Oct 2012 09:55:27 CET
Install Date : Wed 31 Oct 2012 12:28:40 CET
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Description : The linux kernel and modules
# pacman -Qi virtualbox-host-modules
Name : virtualbox-host-modules
Version : 4.2.4-2
URL : http://virtualbox.org
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : linux>=3.6 linux<3.7
Optional Deps : None
Required By : virtualbox
Conflicts With : virtualbox-modules
Replaces : virtualbox-modules
Installed Size : 168.00 KiB
Packager : Evangelos Foutras <[email protected]>
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Mon 29 Oct 2012 17:23:20 CET
Install Date : Wed 31 Oct 2012 12:29:06 CET
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : Yes
Description : Host kernel modules for VirtualBox
Kill all VBox processes, VBoxSVC does not quit but is marked (defunct)
Reload modules
Confirm modules loaded
vboxnetflt 16807 0
vboxnetadp 18419 0
vboxdrv 1823469 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
Start VirtualBox - nothing
pacman -Rdd virtualbox-host-modules
pacman -S virtualbox-host-modules
modprobe vboxdrv
Start VirtualBox - nothing
pacman -R virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules
pacman -S virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules
useradd -G vboxusers
Start VirtualBox - nothing
The problem seems to be something to do with nspr-2. I am getting multiple errors in the journal:
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: INFO: task nspr-2:1007 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: nspr-2 D 0000000000000246 0 1007 1 0x00000000
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: ffff8803d67b9d68 0000000000000082 ffff8803d65b0810 ffff8803d67b9fd8
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: ffff8803d67b9fd8 ffff8803d67b9fd8 ffff8804194a58b0 ffff8803d65b0810
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: ffff880300000041 ffffffff8119df46 ffff88042fffdb08 0000000000000001
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: Call Trace:
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff8119df46>] ? mntput+0x26/0x40
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff811251cc>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x16c/0x960
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff81491a09>] schedule+0x29/0x70
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff81491cd7>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x27/0x40
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff81490368>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x148/0x340
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff81490576>] mutex_lock+0x16/0x30
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffffa001cbfb>] show_product+0x2b/0x60 [usbcore]
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff8132cc90>] dev_attr_show+0x20/0x60
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff8112146e>] ? __get_free_pages+0xe/0x50
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff811ef969>] sysfs_read_file+0xa9/0x190
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff8117f785>] vfs_read+0xa5/0x180
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff8117f8aa>] sys_read+0x4a/0xa0
Oct 31 14:16:46 ezcool kernel: [<ffffffff81499ded>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
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