Guru Meditation error. Looking for help

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campbeng
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Guru Meditation error. Looking for help

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A have received a "guru meditation" error after my first load of Ubuntu. Shut down occurred during Ubuntu loading. Error message instructed me to post my log and image for help. Unfortunately, my log (and image) is too large to attach?!? Can someone please assist me on this? Below is the log, beginning where I believe errors began. Thank you very much!

00:01:22.032394 FF: 00 00 00
00:01:22.032395 !!
00:01:22.032396 !! {vgagr}
00:01:22.032396 !!
00:01:22.032397 VGA Graphics Controller (3CF): GR index 3CE:05
00:01:22.032397 GR00:00 GR01:00 GR02:00 GR03:00 GR04:00 GR05:50 GR06:05 GR07:0F GR08:FF
00:01:22.032401 !!
00:01:22.032402 !! {vgapl}
00:01:22.032402 !!
00:01:22.032403 read mode : 0 write mode: 0
00:01:22.032404 set/reset data: 00 S/R enable: 00
00:01:22.032405 color compare : 00 read map : 0
00:01:22.032405 rotate : 0 function : 0
00:01:22.032406 don't care : 0F bit mask : FF
00:01:22.032407 seq plane mask: 0F chain-4 : on
00:01:22.032408 !!
00:01:22.032409 !! {vgasr}
00:01:22.032409 !!
00:01:22.032410 VGA Sequencer (3C5): SR index 3C4:00
00:01:22.032411 SR00:03 SR01:00 SR02:0F SR03:04 SR04:0A
00:01:22.032413 !!
00:01:22.032413 !! {vgatext}
00:01:22.032414 !!
00:01:22.032415 Not in text mode!
00:01:22.032416 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:01:23.032460 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'GURU_MEDITATION'.
Perryg
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Re: Guru Meditation error. Looking for help

Post by Perryg »

You could compress the file and it should fit.
campbeng
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Re: Guru Meditation error. Looking for help

Post by campbeng »

Perryg wrote:You could compress the file and it should fit.
VBox.zip
Log compressed
(119 KiB) Downloaded 25 times
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Re: Guru Meditation error. Looking for help

Post by Perryg »

What happens if you set the guests RAM to 3GB
campbeng
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Re: Guru Meditation error. Looking for help

Post by campbeng »

Perryg wrote:What happens if you set the guests RAM to 3GB
Thank you for the very quick response! I have changed the RAM and everything seems to be working now. I appreciate your help very much!
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Re: Guru Meditation error. Looking for help

Post by Perryg »

No problem. If you want to use that much RAM you must have a kernel that will work with it.
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