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#1 2012-10-13 20:27:28

pressman57
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X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

Hi all. I just installed Arch in Vbox and all went well until I installed the guest additions package with pacman. Now X won't start. I uninstalled the guest additions package and X starts normally.

Any ideas?

Last edited by pressman57 (2012-10-13 21:30:00)


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#2 2012-10-13 20:38:22

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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

Try to remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf (it should work fine without an xorg.conf file). If you still have problems, post the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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#3 2012-10-13 21:01:22

pressman57
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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

olive.....thanks for the reply.

Deleted /etc/X11/xorg.conf, reinstalled the guest additions package and X won't start. Can't really post the output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log because there's no way to copy-paste it. One line did say, however, "failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module requirement mismatch). Could it be that the guest additions package is not in synch with Xorg?


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#4 2012-10-13 21:02:01

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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

If you just installed it, it's probably related to xorg-server 1.13 which the vbox video modues doesn't support yet.

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#5 2012-10-13 21:05:05

pressman57
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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

Scimmia.....yeah I guess that could do it.


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#6 2012-10-13 21:20:19

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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

Same story. I had to downgrade these packages to make things work, so if you find and install them, it should resolve the issue:

$ cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
# pacman -U xorg-server-common-1.12.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U xf86-input-evdev-2.7.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (not really sure if downgrading this one is necessary)
# pacman -U xorg-server-1.12.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Or similar packages according to your architecture.

Last edited by iodine (2012-10-13 21:20:44)

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#7 2012-10-13 21:23:13

pressman57
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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

iodine, since this is a new install where can I find the older packages?


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#8 2012-10-13 21:25:29

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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

pressman57 wrote:

iodine, since this is a new install where can I find the older packages?

Follow Wiki.

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#9 2012-10-13 21:27:47

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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

Thanks. Will do.


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#10 2012-10-13 21:41:31

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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

iodine, I'm guessing OpenGL doesn't work, though? Not a big deal, but something to be aware of.

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#11 2012-10-13 21:52:53

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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

Had the same symptoms today after upgrading my Archlinux VM. Downgrading as iodine indicated solved (temporarily I'm afraid) the problem.

I have to say that downgrading to xorg-server-1.12.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz forced me to remove xf86-video-vesa (2.3.2-2)

Thanks!

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#12 2012-10-13 21:53:37

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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

Scimmia wrote:

iodine, I'm guessing OpenGL doesn't work, though? Not a big deal, but something to be aware of.

Well, at least glxgears runs, although with some warnings:

[iodine@arch ~]$ glxgears
OpenGL Warning: glFlushVertexArrayRangeNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glVertexArrayRangeNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerInputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerOutputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterfNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameteriNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glFinalCombinerInputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerInputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerInputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerOutputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerOutputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFinalCombinerInputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFinalCombinerInputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glDeleteFencesNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glFinishFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGenFencesNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFenceivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glIsFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glSetFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glTestFenceNV not found in mesa table
5585 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1116.892 FPS

Not sure what that means, though.

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#13 2012-10-14 21:51:19

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Re: X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

iodine wrote:

Same story. I had to downgrade these packages to make things work, so if you find and install them, it should resolve the issue:

$ cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
# pacman -U xorg-server-common-1.12.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U xf86-input-evdev-2.7.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (not really sure if downgrading this one is necessary)
# pacman -U xorg-server-1.12.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Or similar packages according to your architecture.

I can confirm that downgrading works.

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