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GUI not working after installing guestadditions

Posted: 31. Jan 2011, 07:06
by najoshi
Hi All,

SCENARIO:

VirtualBox 3.2.1
Host : Windows XP
Guest: Fedora 9 + Guest Additions

Problem:
Before installing GuestAdditions, the Fedora's GUI was working fine; login window worked well.
But, after installing GuestAdditions, the Fedora's GUI is NOT working,
jUST Login PROMPT appears and now login window is shown.

Plz. tell me what to do?
Thanks.

Re: GUI not working after installing guestadditions

Posted: 31. Jan 2011, 22:33
by Sasquatch
First of all, version 3.2.1 never existed, so it's either 3.1.0, 3.1.2, 3.2.0 or 3.2.2 (or maybe even 3.2.10).

Anyway, check my Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions + Xorg config. There might be an error with X, so you have to log on to the CLI and check /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what is the problem. You might need an xorg.conf file and specify the vboxvideo driver.