Black screen after installing virtualbox-guest-x11

[Ganton]

Congratulations for the 17.04 version. Using it in a Virtualbox virtual machine, if the virtualbox-guest-x11 package is installed: then, after rebooting the virtual machine, only a "black screen" is seen.

Then Host key + F1 works and programs can be executed there, although Host key + F7 keeps showing a "black screen".

The problem happens using a virtual machine with Ubuntu 17.04 or Kubuntu 17.04.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Mike (michbu)]

Same problem here. The same problem also occurs, when installing the guest addons from the guest addons iso of the host.

I had the same problem in a machine after the update from a working 16.10.

[Fernando (fmfzide)]

Same error here after upgrading from 16.10 to 17.04:

$ cat Xorg.1.log | grep EE
 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 102.177] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 102.178] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 102.180] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 102.180] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 102.180] (EE) open /dev/fb0: Permission denied
[ 102.180] (EE) open /dev/fb0: Permission denied
[ 102.180] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[ 102.180] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[ 102.205] (EE) VESA(0): Cannot read int vect
[ 102.205] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 102.205] (EE)
[ 102.205] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 102.206] (EE)
[ 102.206] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/millan/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log" for additional information.
[ 102.206] (EE)
[ 102.217] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

However, I have installed Kubuntu 17.04 in a new virtual machine and it works perfectly.

[Fernando (fmfzide)]

Sorry, I was wrong in my previous post and it seems I cannot edit it...

I uninstalled virtualbox-guest-x11 after upgrading and I wasn't able to use the full-screen mode and also I have some graphical glitches. I installed a new virtual machine and there are no graphical glitches and it works in full-screen mode. I supposed that the virtualbox-guest-x11 was installed but is not but the module vboxvideo is loaded.

[Alexey Ivanov (alexey-ivanov)]

VirtualBox 5.1.22 don't support xserver-xorg 1.19, only 1.18 at most, but somehow it loads on lightdm/unity, but not on gdm3 or gnome-session.

[Alexey Ivanov (alexey-ivanov)]

grep video /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
(EE) vboxvideo: module ABI major version (20) doesn't match the server's version (23)

[KIAaze (zohn-joidberg)]

This also affects real machines, not only virtual ones.

After installing virtualbox-guest-x11:

At first I encountered this bug: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/518831-The-screen-locker-is-broken-and-unlocking-is-not-possible-anymore
I also noticed that "konsole" would not start anymore.
After logging out completely, I got the black screen.
The same happened after rebooting. Just a black screen, but the virtual terminals worked.

I fixed it by simply removing the package:
sudo apt purge virtualbox-guest-x11

[KIAaze (zohn-joidberg)]

grep EE /var/log/Xorg.* output

[leonardo (leonardoapolinario)]

The same here. Using Kubuntu 17.10 on a VirtualBox Machine. After install virtualbox-guest-x11 only "black" screen is seen. If I use alt+ f2 I can use Konsole (terminal). If I uninstall virtualbox-guest-x11 the system loads normally.

[leonardo (leonardoapolinario)]

grep EE /var/log/Xorg.* output

output
/var/log/Xorg.0.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:[ 53.688] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:[ 53.884] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:[ 60.882] (EE) modeset(0): glamor initialization failed
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:[ 60.963] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:[ 62.113] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/0003:80EE:0021.0001/input/input6/event5"
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old:[ 1508.580] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old:[ 1508.655] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old:[ 1508.817] (EE) modeset(0): glamor initialization failed
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old:[ 1508.828] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old:[ 1509.176] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/0003:80EE:0021.0001/input/input6/event5"
grep: output: No such file or directory

[Tony Middleton (ximera)]

This problem seems to have gone away on 18.04.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

lets close it, I already fixed it

[Tony Middleton (ximera)]

This problem now seems to have arisen in a recently updated 16.04 system.