Unable to Enter Desktop Environment on Fefora Rawhide

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charchar
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Unable to Enter Desktop Environment on Fefora Rawhide

Post by charchar »

After booting, when I try to login into a desktop, it seems that the Xorg server crashes and simply returns to the login screen. Examining dmesg indicates a deadlock with the Guest Additions video driver.
VirtualBox 6.0.6 r130049
Host: Windows 10, Guest is Fedora Rawhide x64 with 8 GB of RAM and with Guest Additions installed.

VBox.log attached.

At the moment< I do not know how to extract my VM's dmesg.
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Re: Unable to Enter Desktop Environment on Fefora Rawhide

Post by mpack »

VBox.log wrote: 00:00:43.438861 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 6.0.0 r127566 '6.0.0'
charchar
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Re: Unable to Enter Desktop Environment on Fefora Rawhide

Post by charchar »

My mistake.
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Re: Unable to Enter Desktop Environment on Fefora Rawhide

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00:00:06.633937   VMSVGA3dEnabled  <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
00:00:06.633937   VMSVGAEnabled    <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
Switch from "VBoxSVGA" to either "VBoxVGA" or "VMSVGA". The "VBoxSVGA" is the default for Windows guests, not Linux guests.
charchar wrote:when I try to login into a desktop, it seems that the Xorg server crashes and simply returns to the login screen
I've seen that in the past. If there's a "cog" under your login name, try the "Gnome classic", if such an option exists. Otherwise, try without 3D acceleration, and update the Guest Additions.
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Re: Unable to Enter Desktop Environment on Fefora Rawhide

Post by charchar »

What are the technical differences between VBoxSVGA, VBoxVGA, and VMSVGA. If that is covered in the user's guide, I don't have convenient access to it.
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Re: Unable to Enter Desktop Environment on Fefora Rawhide

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charchar wrote:What are the technical differences between VBoxSVGA, VBoxVGA, and VMSVGA
The "technical differences" between them? I don't have the slightest idea! Seriously, why do you care? They're virtual GPUs, and what I do know is in the User Manual, ch. 3.6.1 Screen Tab.

Other than that, you could study the source code...
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