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Hi,
I've been duckduckgoing and have found no results on how to disable a service that slows down boot up time on my laptop with linux-lite and apparently I don't need it as I'm not using virtualbox.  The console shows after:
Started LSB disk temperature monitoring
A start job is running for vbox.add service 5m 20s
and it takes about 3 or 4 minutes for this to run its course.

I did a removal  (not complete removal) of any software I could find related to virtualbox in Synaptic, such as virtualbox-guest-utils, virtualbox-guest-x11, and virtualbox-guest-dkms but that didn't help. 

I then went to Session and Startup and unticked vboxclient under application startup but that didn't help.  I then edited /etc/xdg/autostart/vboxclient.desktop and changed the following line to false
Didn't help.
Apparently it isn't a service that I see under
so I'm out of ideas. 

I did remove the virtualbox packages you mentioned and also purged them but that shouldn't make a difference.


In your case you're looking for services. Simply disable the services and your boot up time will skyrocket. Therefore, you want to disable the vboxadd and vboxadd-service services as follow:

From Terminal:
Reboot and ENJOY!  ;D
So, users do not necessarily need remove the packages unless (as in your case) don't have a need for them. Disabling the services will be plenty enough.

(04-05-2019, 02:20 PM)circular_mews link Wrote: [ -> ]Hi,
I've been duckduckgoing and have found no results on how to disable a service that slows down boot up time on my laptop with linux-lite and apparently I don't need it as I'm not using virtualbox.

The correct instructions are in the Linux Lite 4.0 release announcement here in the Forums.

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Ralphy and Jerry, thanks!  Sorry you had to repeat yourselves.  Earlier today I did a search here for "vbox" and it didn't bring up any results, probably due to dial-up or having ublock origin extension enabled.  I've disabled it for this site, tried again and this time it brought up many questions with answers concerning the same question.  :