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Is this a sign I got hacked?

Ask Ubuntu Asked by thomas boisson on March 6, 2021

I was doing some important stuff on VirtualBox. I reinstalled my Mac brand new, installed VirtualBox from VirtualBox.org, and installed Ubuntu Server 20.04.

After finishing my work I typed poweroff (I only have one administrator account). Now I haven’t even installed openssh upon installing Ubuntu, no connection whatsoever to the outside world of this VirtualBox except some very trustworthy installations.

And I get this message:

Failed to set wall message, ignoring: Interactive authentication required
Failed to power off system via login:d: Interactive authentication required.
Failed to open initctl fifo: Permission denied
Failed to talk to init daemon

Does that mean somebody else was also using or sneaking into my VirtualBox guest OS?

And by the way, I verified the checksum of the download of my VirtualBox AND of my ubuntu installation!

One Answer

You need to restart the OS after installing to complete necessary configuration. It was just that.

If the message is recurring then you may need to address the issue, but as it was just a one time thing, it is safe to assume it was just because it needed a restart.

Correct answer by Anantpatel on March 6, 2021

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