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gsettings-desktop-schemas package

Unity blank screen on boot with Virtual Box

Bug #738442 reported by Joe Areeda on 2011-03-19

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gsettings-desktop-schemas (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gsettings-desktop-schemas

I had this working last week but I've been installing the latest iso's and have run into an interesting problem.

Install goes pretty much OK except for https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/725785 gsettings-data-convert closed unexpectedly on log in.

Now when I add the VBox extensions and reboot the display is blank. The system does boot and after the 10th install or so I have sshd installed to see what's going on.

The problem seems to be reported in syslog as:

    Mar 19 14:09:04 natty2 gdm-binary[980]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.046186 seconds
    Mar 19 14:09:04 natty2 gdm-simple-slave[1064]: WARNING: Unable to load file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf': No such file or directory
    Mar 19 14:09:04 natty2 acpid: client 1062[0:0] has disconnected

lshw reports:

        *-display UNCLAIMED
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
             vendor: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: vga_controller bus_master
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:e0000000-e7ffffff

So I don't think it's VBox's fault.

This is a clean install with zsync'ed live CD today 3/19/2011. Happens with both 32 and 64 bit versions.

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Joe Areeda (areeda) wrote on 2011-03-19:

/var/log/gdm/:0.log Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain)

I think I've found a more descriptive error message in /var/log/gdm/:0.log

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so
(II) Module vboxvideo: vendor="Oracle Corporation"
compiled for 1.5.99.901, module version = 1.0.1
(EE) module ABI major version (9) doesn't match the server's version (10)
(II) Unloading vboxvideo
(EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Although Virtual Box running on Lucid shows no updates. I'll see what I can find.

Attached is the gdm log

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oli z (oliver-z) wrote on 2011-03-20:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ose/+bug/738330