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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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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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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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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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Scimmia.....yeah I guess that could do it.
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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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iodine, since this is a new install where can I find the older packages?
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iodine, since this is a new install where can I find the older packages?
Follow Wiki.
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Thanks. Will do.
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iodine, I'm guessing OpenGL doesn't work, though? Not a big deal, but something to be aware of.
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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!
Last edited by Zertrin (2012-10-13 22:03:40)
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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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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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