Hi everyone,
Host: Win10
Guest: Xubuntu 18.04
Vbox Version: 6.1.18 r142142 (Qt5.6.2)
This VM was running for years with no issue and only today this happened and it applies only to this specific VM:
Once Xubuntu 18.04 is booted I get login screen which seems to be frozen - I cannot enter my passwd, mouse cursor is not an arrow but like a pipe BUT I can see that
clock is working.
Also I can SSH to the system.
Any idea what might be wrong / where to look?
[UPDATE]
Once I connected with VNC i can see it complains about light-locker. I removed it but it didnt help. It also didnt help to install it back again.
Frozen login screen BUT system is running
Frozen login screen BUT system is running
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Re: Frozen login screen BUT system is running
The VM's name is not a hackable piece of information.
Start the VM from full normal shutdown, not save-state. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the VM from within the VM's OS if possible. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the VM with the Power Off option set.
Right-click the VM in the main Virtualbox window's VM list, choose Show Log. Save the far left tab's log, zip it, and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab.
Also, check if the VM's disk is almost or completely full.
Start the VM from full normal shutdown, not save-state. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the VM from within the VM's OS if possible. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the VM with the Power Off option set.
Right-click the VM in the main Virtualbox window's VM list, choose Show Log. Save the far left tab's log, zip it, and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab.
Also, check if the VM's disk is almost or completely full.
Re: Frozen login screen BUT system is running
Hi Scottgus1,
Thank you for your reply.
Zipped log is added as attachment.
VM (guest os) disk space:
Thank you for your reply.
Zipped log is added as attachment.
VM (guest os) disk space:
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e_____s@e_____s-VirtualBox:~$ df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 394M 1.1M 393M 1% /run
/dev/mapper/xubuntu--vg-root ext4 18G 13G 4.1G 77% /
tmpfs tmpfs 2.0G 16K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0 squashfs 18M 18M 0 100% /snap/pdftk/9
/dev/loop1 squashfs 111M 111M 0 100% /snap/core/12725
/dev/loop2 squashfs 111M 111M 0 100% /snap/core/12821
/dev/sda1 ext4 704M 170M 483M 27% /boot
tmpfs tmpfs 394M 4.0K 394M 1% /run/user/110
tmpfs tmpfs 394M 0 394M 0% /run/user/1000
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Re: Frozen login screen BUT system is running
Hi everyone
I just wanted to let u know that this issue has nothig to do with VirtualBox.
In many/most google searches people were talkig about removig / reistalling / dowgradig nvidia drivers (as it is conflicting with display server).
In my case, this was a problem due to messed up/broken xserver-xorg-* packages (not VGA drivers).
In case Debian-like distros here is the fix (at least how I solved problem on my OS - Ubuntu 18.04):
Hope this helps to someone.
Cheers
I just wanted to let u know that this issue has nothig to do with VirtualBox.
In many/most google searches people were talkig about removig / reistalling / dowgradig nvidia drivers (as it is conflicting with display server).
In my case, this was a problem due to messed up/broken xserver-xorg-* packages (not VGA drivers).
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xserver-xorg-*
eg:
xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-input-all
xserver-xorg-video-vmware
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1. Boot system in to recovery mode:
In the GRUB menu, choose Advance options for Ubuntu > select kernel with "recovery mode"
2. Enable network
3. dpkg Repair broken packages
4. proceed to normal boot / reboot
Cheers
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Re: Frozen login screen BUT system is running
Thanks for reporting your results.