VESA error: Cannot read int vect
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Xorg Xserver VESA |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
xserver-xorg-driver-vesa (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After installing the most recent updates on Vivid Vervet within a KVM virtual machine, the X server fails to start up with error message "VESA(0): Cannot read int vect". During the recent update, several xserver-xorg-* packages were upgraded; the X server (xserver-xorg-core) was updated from 1.16.2.901-1ubuntu4 to 1.17.1-0ubuntu2.
After some searching, I found, this upstream patch may have introduced the issue:
http://
Excerpt from X.org log:
[ 3612.095] (II) LoadModule: "vbe"
[ 3612.095] (II) Loading /usr/lib/
[ 3612.095] (II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 3612.095] compiled for 1.17.1, module version = 1.1.0
[ 3612.095] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 19.0
[ 3612.095] (II) Loading sub module "int10"
[ 3612.095] (II) LoadModule: "int10"
[ 3612.095] (II) Loading /usr/lib/
[ 3612.096] (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 3612.096] compiled for 1.17.1, module version = 1.0.0
[ 3612.096] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 19.0
[ 3612.096] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10
[ 3612.096] (EE) VESA(0): Cannot read int vect
[ 3612.096] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 3612.096] (II) UnloadSubModule: "int10"
[ 3612.096] (II) Unloading int10
[ 3612.096] (II) UnloadSubModule: "vbe"
[ 3612.096] (II) Unloading vbe
[ 3612.096] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 3612.096] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 3612.096] (EE) no screens found(EE)
The full X.org log has been attached.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.