Virtual machine stuck at starting state forever and session is locked

[mme]

I have two virtual machines hosted on Ubuntu Server (no GUI, all command-line). One of them is operating normally while the other one cannot be started.

1. When I start the vm, it always stuck at the "starting" state.
2. I got this error in the log file when I start it:

00:00:00.147 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={1968b7d3-e3bf-4ceb-99e0-cb7c913317bb} aComponent={Console} aText={The virtual machine is not powered up}, preserve=false

3. When I try to power it off through the command "vboxmanage controlvm vm_name poweroff", I got this error:

VBoxManage: error: Invalid machine state: Starting (must be Running, Paused or Stuck) VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE (0x80bb0002), component Console, interface IConsole, callee nsISupports Context: "PowerDown(progress.asOutParam())" at line 168 of file VBoxManageControlVM.cpp

4. I have to kill the running virtualbox processes to be able to change vm state to "aborted".

5. I tried to only poweron this virtual machine but it didn't work. Same errors. I believe there is a misconfiguration or something with the virtual machine itself and not the virtualbox version as the first vm works fine.

Anyone have any idea how to solve this issue? I can provide more error details if anyone asked.

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.