Unable to delete files-Impacting Virtualbox not working

[georgelza]

On BigSur 11.0.1

Hi all,

so think everyone knows about the Virtualbox problem.
I've uninstalled, reinstalled, I've used their uninstall script, I've rebooted etc etc. Still have the kernel error on startup.
I've now found the following 4 directories, even after a clean up:

Georges-MacBook-Pro.local:/Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox > ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel 192 Dec 9 11:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Oct 13 2018 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Oct 16 12:43 VBoxDrv.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Oct 16 12:43 VBoxNetAdp.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Oct 16 12:43 VBoxNetFlt.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Oct 16 12:43 VBoxUSB.kext
Georges-MacBook-Pro.local:/Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox >

and thinking their ownership/permissions is causing my problem.

I've tried simple rm -rf VirtualBox
I've tried sudo rm -rf VirtualBox

I've tried sudo chown -r george:staff VirtualBox
I"ve tried chflags nouchg <filename> on a file.
I've tried sudo mv <file> $home/.Trash and similarly the directory.
All ending with Permission denied
I've also done sudo su -
but then the directory structure totally disappears, and can't find it.

suggestions

G

 

[georgelza]

Anyone ?

 

[Ritsuka]

Try

sudo kextcache --clear-staging

or https://stackoverflow.com/questions...ons-for-and-how-to-remove-extensions#53387480

 

[georgelza]

Thank you, that worked.

 

[georgelza]

... so that fixed the files that was still there, but did not fix my Virtualbox problem. bummer.