VESA error: Cannot read int vect

[MegaBrutal]

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://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/hw/xfree86/int10?id=21b216ad6ce2e9c89359b95e4196e42d91bf9420

Excerpt from X.org log:

[ 3612.095] (II) LoadModule: "vbe"
[ 3612.095] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libvbe.so
[ 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/xorg/modules/libint10.so
[ 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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg)]

This is also affecting Ubuntu MATE 15.04 daily images for 17th March 2015. When booting the i386 or and64 images under VirtualBox is it not possible to reach Ubiquity or the Live desktop.

The full Xorg.0.log is attached and also available in the paste below:

  * http://paste.ubuntu.com/10615071/

[MegaBrutal (qbu6to)]

Today's update of xserver-xorg-core has fixed the issue.

xorg-server (2:1.17.1-0ubuntu3) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Add a patch to fix vesa int10 failure. (LP: #1433198)

 -- Maarten Lankhorst <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:13:08 +0100