Virtual Machine black screen after upgrade to ubuntu 13.10

[greenman]

Running VBox on Windows 7 Pro with Ubuntu client.

I foolishly allowed a dev vm to upgrade to ubuntu saucy salamander 13.10 from 13.04.
Now when I attempt to access the box, I get a screen that looks like everything is loading properly and then a blank screen with a blinking cursor sans prompt in the top left corner of a black screen.
I've already looked around online and have been unable to find an existing recipe for fixing this kind of thing.
When I hold down shift during boot up, I can get to the grub advanced options, but I don't know where to go from here.
Nothing I do will bring up a regular desktop.
I'd be grateful some help recovering this vm.

(Can't post an image due to spambot stopper, since this is my first post.)

[noteirak]

Please read Minimum information needed for assistance.

[greenman]

Thanks noteirak, for your reply.

I've attached the log file

VBox.zip

log file for rockbox-environment

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Host info from Belarc Advisor

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Operating System
Windows 7 Professional (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States)
Installed: 12/15/2012 7:56:25 PM

System Model
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P67A-UD4-B3
Enclosure Type: Desktop

Processor
3.30 gigahertz Intel Core i5-2500K
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
6144 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Not hyper-threaded

Main Circuit Board
Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P67A-UD4-B3
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. F4 04/13/2011

Drives
4256.74 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
1422.25 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
ASUS DRW-24B1ST a ATA Device [Optical drive]
eUSB Compact Flash USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
eUSB SD-MS-SM USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 1, s/n xyz, rev ML6OA580, SMART Status: Healthy
HitachiG ST USB Device [Hard drive] (2000.39 GB) -- drive 2, s/n xyz
SanDisk SDSSDP256G (256.06 GB) -- drive 0, s/n xyz, rev 2.0.0, SMART Status: Healthy

Memory Modules
16368 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'A0' has 4096 MB
Slot 'A1' has 4096 MB
Slot 'A2' has 4096 MB
Slot 'A3' has 4096 MB

Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 	255.95 GB 	72.06 GB free 		
e: (NTFS on drive 1) 	2000.40 GB 	625.82 GB free 		
k: (NTFS on drive 2) 	2000.39 GB 	724.37 GB free 	

Guest Info from VBoxManage showinfo

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PS C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox> ./VBoxManage showvminfo rockbox-environment --details
Name:            rockbox-environment
Groups:          /
Guest OS:        Ubuntu
UUID:            9d444b10-c412-4430-8d39-6a6e71d58bb4
Config file:     C:\Users\Chris\VirtualBox VMs\rockbox-environment\rockbox-environment.vbox
Snapshot folder: C:\Users\Chris\VirtualBox VMs\rockbox-environment\Snapshots
Log folder:      C:\Users\Chris\VirtualBox VMs\rockbox-environment\Logs
Hardware UUID:   9d444b10-c412-4430-8d39-6a6e71d58bb4
Memory size:     4096MB
Page Fusion:     off
VRAM size:       128MB
CPU exec cap:    100%
HPET:            off
Chipset:         piix3
Firmware:        BIOS
Number of CPUs:  2
Synthetic Cpu:   off
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode:  message and menu
Boot Device (1): Floppy
Boot Device (2): DVD
Boot Device (3): HardDisk
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI:            on
IOAPIC:          on
PAE:             on
Time offset:     0ms
RTC:             UTC
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Hardw. virt.ext exclusive: off
Nested Paging:   on
Large Pages:     on
VT-x VPID:       on
State:           running (since 2013-10-18T13:53:42.835000000)
Monitor count:   1
3D Acceleration: on
2D Video Acceleration: off
Teleporter Enabled: off
Teleporter Port: 0
Teleporter Address: 
Teleporter Password: 
Tracing Enabled: off
Allow Tracing to Access VM: off
Tracing Configuration: 
Autostart Enabled: off
Autostart Delay: 0
Storage Controller Name (0):            IDE
Storage Controller Type (0):            PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0):  2
Storage Controller Port Count (0):      2
Storage Controller Bootable (0):        on
Storage Controller Name (1):            SATA
Storage Controller Type (1):            IntelAhci
Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (1):  30
Storage Controller Port Count (1):      1
Storage Controller Bootable (1):        on
IDE (0, 0): E:\Downloads\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.0.iso (UUID: 29ae9be5-2ac3-434a-b461-8703dfbaeec6)
SATA (0, 0): C:\Users\Chris\VirtualBox VMs\rockbox-environment\rockbox-environment.vdi (UUID: b8790cbf-ef32-4f58-8735-78c35a3d7f72)
NIC 1:           MAC: 080027E5703F, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, B
oot priority: 0, Promisc Policy: deny, Bandwidth group: none
NIC 1 Settings:  MTU: 0, Socket (send: 64, receive: 64), TCP Window (send:64, receive: 64)
NIC 2:           disabled
NIC 3:           disabled
NIC 4:           disabled
NIC 5:           disabled
NIC 6:           disabled
NIC 7:           disabled
NIC 8:           disabled
Pointing Device: USB Tablet
Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard
UART 1:          disabled
UART 2:          disabled
LPT 1:           disabled
LPT 2:           disabled
Audio:           enabled (Driver: DSOUND, Controller: AC97)
Clipboard Mode:  Bidirectional
Drag'n'drop Mode:  Bidirectional
Video mode:      720x400x0
VRDE:            disabled
USB:             enabled
EHCI:            enabled

USB Device Filters:

<none>

Available remote USB devices:

<none>

Currently Attached USB Devices:

<none>

Bandwidth groups:  <none>

Shared folders:  

Name: 'shared_folder', Host path: 'E:\vbox\shared_folder' (machine mapping), writable

VRDE Connection:    not active
Clients so far:     0

Guest:

Configured memory balloon size:      0 MB
OS type:                             Linux26_64
Additions run level:                 2
Additions version:                   4.2.18 r88780


Guest Facilities:

Facility "VirtualBox Base Driver": active/running (last update: 2013/10/18 13:54:08 UTC)
Facility "VirtualBox System Service": active/running (last update: 2013/10/18 13:57:05 UTC)
Facility "Seamless Mode": not active (last update: 2013/10/18 13:54:08 UTC)
Facility "Graphics Mode": not active (last update: 2013/10/18 13:54:08 UTC)



PS C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>

[noteirak]

At first glance, I don't see something wrong, but I rarely use Virtualbox for desktop purposes. I will let other that have more experience with this check this also.

[Studzinek]

Maybe your problem isn't related to virtualbox rather to Ubuntu?

Did you read this? (I'm new user so I can't post urls. Search it in google. You will find pages on askubuntu)
ubuntu-open-to-black-screen-with-blinking-cursor-after-upgrading-from-12-10-to-1
and
my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it
maybe try nomodeset at first (for example I have to use it every time when I'm installing Ubuntu from scratch on my PC)

[greenman]

Thank you for your replies.
I thought about going to the other forum, but I suspect it's got to do with virtualbox.

Maybe your problem isn't related to virtualbox rather to Ubuntu?

Did you read this? (I'm new user so I can't post urls. Search it in google. You will find pages on askubuntu)
ubuntu-open-to-black-screen-with-blinking-cursor-after-upgrading-from-12-10-to-1
and
my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it
maybe try nomodeset at first (for example I have to use it every time when I'm installing Ubuntu from scratch on my PC)

I tried this:
1. Couldn't edit grub because machine mounts in read-only from advanced root.
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sudo omount -o remount, rw '/'  

# remount the main system so it's read/writable.
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sudo nano -w etc/default/grub

4. replace

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

5. Control X to save the file.
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sudo update grub

7. /user/sbin/grub-mkconfig: 237: /user/sbin/grub-mkconfig: cannot create /boot/grub/grub.cfg.new: Directory nonexistent
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mkdir/boot/grub

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sudo update grub

10. Generating grub.cfg ... Done

No dice. This is based on these three threads in the ubuntu forum:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/47538/ho ... m-writable
http://askubuntu.com/questions/286062/u ... idia-gefor
http://askubuntu.com/questions/289926/u ... ack-screen

Still at a loss. I'd really rather not lose the data.

[RustyMuppet]

I had the same problem, but now have a gui back.

Quite a few erorrs appearing on login as well. Also when going full screen it seems to be defaulting to the screensize of my laptop rather than my secondary screen where it is running. I am running VirtualBox 4.3.0. Didnt have this problem on 4.2.16.

To get the gui back I did this after logging in (VM started with guest additions as cdrom):

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom/
sudo su -
cp -r /cdrom .
cd cdrom/
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
reboot

Not sure why I have to copy the cdrom contents, but the scripts wont run any other way for me. Also, I replaced guest additions 4.3.0 with 4.3.0!

Hope this helps

Update:
Errors were only on first boot. Second boot was fine and showed the new background image.
Still have the full screen problem, but using host+F does the same thing and works so I will use that instead for now.

[greenman]

You are a life saver! This worked. I can access the vbox now.
My shared folders became unaccessable and my network went off line, but these were easily manageable.
I'm so glad not to have totally lost all my work.

Thank you.

I had the same problem, but now have a gui back.

Quite a few erorrs appearing on login as well. Also when going full screen it seems to be defaulting to the screensize of my laptop rather than my secondary screen where it is running. I am running VirtualBox 4.3.0. Didnt have this problem on 4.2.16.

To get the gui back I did this after logging in (VM started with guest additions as cdrom):

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom/
sudo su -
cp -r /cdrom .
cd cdrom/
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
reboot

Not sure why I have to copy the cdrom contents, but the scripts wont run any other way for me. Also, I replaced guest additions 4.3.0 with 4.3.0!

Hope this helps

Update:
Errors were only on first boot. Second boot was fine and showed the new background image.
Still have the full screen problem, but using host+F does the same thing and works so I will use that instead for now.

[jimav]

Try to re-install guest additions like this (this worked for me):

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HOST-F1 to get a vt
log in as root
Devices->Install Guest Additions (HOST+D might work also)
mount -o ro /dev/disk/by-label/VBOXADDITIONS* /mnt
cd /mnt
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --nox11
shutdown -r now

[snim2]

I have the same problem - upgraded from 13.04 to 13.10 on a Windows 7 host (both 64 bit, VB 4.2.18) and can't get lightdm to work. Unfortunately, the fix of copying and running Guest Additions didn't work for me. Log file is attached. Any help would be much appreciated!

[artie]

I have other problem with 13.10 and virtualbox 4.3 (using the old 4.2.18 everything runs fine). If it is a bug to report?

When using 4.3, I cannot power off the system, I receive the message:
Stopping VIrtualBox kernel modules unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Then every 10 second:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

And happens nothing...

[jimav]

Please start another thread to discuss other topics. It is confusing to start unrelated discussions here. Thanks.