VBox Guest additions upgrade to 4.2.2 breaks GUI centos 6.3

[Monu]

I upgraded my VirtualBox to 4.2.2 (previously I was using 4.2.0) yesterday and also updated the Guest Additions.
The guest additions build properly without any warning or error.
After restarting the virtual machine when I login as root user, I see just desktop background, no icons or toolbar, neither of mouse buttons are working.
But when I login as some other user, everything is fine.

My Host is Windows 7(64 bit), i7, ATI Raedon 5670 HD, 4GB ram
My Guest is CentOS 6.3(x86_64), 1GB ram, virtualization enabled

[sej7278]

you shouldn't login to the gui as root, so are you sure this is a vbox problem and not a centos protection?

[Monu]

previous version(4.2.0) of Guest Additions was working properly for every user including root.
I don't know what is causing this

[kapetros]

I'm also having some issues with the 4.2.2 version, mainly in compiz, it doesn't work, I'm having the black screen issue on log in. With Compiz disabled everything works ok.
From my .xsession-errors there was a warning about Xdamage not been able to open the display, I have test it on Slackware 14.0 x86 and on Mepis x64, So for now I have downgraded to the 4.2.0 version.

[Monu]

I have also downgraded to old version 4.2.0

[Lexi]

Same here with debian6 + gnome2 + compiz.

So I created a virgin user and logged with it into gnome. Everything works (as it is metacity by default).
Now i execute compiz --replace >/compiz.log 2>&1 & => empty desktop (only background) and here is what I got in the log

OpenGL Warning: XDamage: Can't connect to display :0.0
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 186 requests (184 known processed) with 2 events remaining.

Yesteday everything worked smoothly in 4.2.0

Rollback to 4.2.0 fixed the issue.

My host is ubuntu 12.04 running kernel 3.6.2 with nvidia gtx 550ti under 304.51 driver

[kapetros]

Yesterday I show the new Virtualbox 4.2.4 version, so i gave it a try. My problem with compiz (XDamage cannot open Display :0), still exists. Is this a problem with the vboxvideo or with the Xdamage extension? How can I run vboxvideo without the damage extension?

[Phillyidol]

Not sure if this helps anyone, but...

I just upgraded VBGA 4.2.4 from 4.1.2 on my CentOS 6.3 VB, and my desktop loaded, but just the background (no tool-bars/icons/etc.), so I shut it down and tried changing settings one-by-one and restarted each time, and found that disabling 3D did the trick.

I reset all my other settings back to what they were and it still worked, but as soon as I re-enabled 3D, it crapped out again, so seems like the new version breaks 3D capability, unless there's a new step/patch we're supposed to apply as well, so if you know of it (or anything) - please share.

Cheers

[Phillyidol]

Quick update to my own post,

I found the bug ticket on the 4.2.5 testcase, and it successfully addressed/corrected the issue, and it's due to release, so this should be a non-issue soon.

Cheers

[Net-Smart]

I have also downgraded to old version 4.2.0

I thought the newest was the best

[kapetros]

I have just updated to virtualbox 4.2.6, my compiz problem still exists.

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uname -a                                          
Linux slackware 3.2.29-smp #2 SMP Mon Sep 17 13:16:43 CDT 2012 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU  920  @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux 

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Xorg -version                                                                                                                                                               
X.Org X Server 1.12.3                                                                                  
Release Date: 2012-07-09
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Slackware 14.0 Slackware Linux Project
Current Operating System: Linux slackware 3.2.29-smp #2 SMP Mon Sep 17 13:16:43 CDT 2012 i686
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=802 vt.default_utf8=0 rootfstype=ext4
Build Date: 23 August 2012  02:27:55PM
Current version of pixman: 0.26.2
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.

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glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: Humper
OpenGL renderer string: Chromium
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Chromium 1.9
OpenGL shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL extensions:

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compiz --replace ccp >/compiz.log 2>&1 ==>> OpenGL Warning: XDamage: Can't connect to display :0
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
      after 194 requests (194 known processed) with 4 events remaining.

Is there a workaround? Thanks