Main virtualbox window resizes itself 3 or 4 times - then no desktop start

[Kev Bowring]

Install virtualbox from repo's.

Install Xubuntu or Ubuntu

Install virtulabox-guest-utils

Reboot - virtual installation starts.

Install virtualbox-guest-x11

Reboot

Virtual installation starts, see disk clean notice, window then resizes itself a few times - then cursor flashing but no login screen appears

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: virtualbox-guest-x11 5.1.14-dfsg-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.9.0-15.16-generic 4.9.5
Uname: Linux 4.9.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 19 20:34:16 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-19 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Alpha amd64 (20170219)
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

It happened yesterday to me, I can confirm.
Probably some xorg changes? some qt issue?
I would say this isn't a vbox fault

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

not sure if mesa has something to do here, because we are using ld to override the ld.so.conf.d EGL and GL configuration files

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

putting xorg developers in the loop

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

mesa has been at 13.0.x for a while now.. xserver hasn't changed either

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

and no logs saying otherwise

[Kev Bowring (flocculant)]

attached xorg log after installing xdiagnose

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

well, sounds like a vbox issue to me:

[ 18.775] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)

which then results in:

[ 18.790] (EE) modeset(0): eglInitialize() failed
[ 18.790] (EE) modeset(0): glamor initialization failed

which probably causes the DM to fail, not sure. There is no crash at least, looks like the server just exits normally because the client fails to run.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

vboxvideo_drv was removed on purpose it seems, but seems that the modeset driver can't enable glamor because of the separate EGL/GL libs?

btw, you probably can drop Provides: xorg-driver-video

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

that vboxvideo has been dropped upstream, I also tried an rm on my zesty vm of that file but it didn't change the boot issue.

I don't understand your modeset sentence, because actually I don't understand
what vboxvideo does (kernel module)
what the driver is supposed to do, and what/how that vbox*GL* libs can replace the vboxvideo_drv

I mostly do what upstream does here:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/tree/src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer/vboxadd.sh#n223

but there is one difference, installing the guest additions works, the my approach worked in Debian and works in Debian, and worked in Ubuntu before zesty.

Zesty changed something I can't understand (and breaks only my build, not the upstream install script)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

test with ppa:canonical-x/x-staging, which has 1.19.2

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

it is not helping... I did test with a vbox custom on my ppa:costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

could this be same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1671377 ?

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Timo, you rock!
it works with that patch, uploaded in Ubuntu

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.