id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
10765,Linux Guest Additions don't get properly installed after guest graphics stack update,Steven Sroka,,"There's nothing better than a story :)

My distribution, Chakra, recently updated some packages related to the graphics stack (see pacman.log) and after reboot, the system would not start the X Server - it would just drop to console (see errors.log).

I figured that there was an issue with the guest additions not working well with the update and I was correct. Uninstalling the guest additions allowed me to boot up right to the GUI login screen :)

Note the attached VBoxGuestAdditions-uninstall.log. I looked for left over files but only found /dev/vboxguest and /dev/vboxuser so I deleted those two.

Once I logged into my desktop environment (which is KDE), I clicked Devices->Install Guest Additions to reinstall the guest additions. I ran VBoxLinuxAdditions.run as root. The script claimed to compile and install everything successfully.

I then rebooted. My system booted to the login screen (no issue with the X Server or starting up the vbox services) but my screen resolution is maxed out at 1024x768 and my mouse jumps around.

Miscellaneous:
My distribution likes to keep packages ""vanilla"".
My host is OS X 10.7.
Sometimes when uninstalling the guest additions, the last line in VBoxGuestAdditions-uninstall.log also says ""fail!"".",defect,closed,guest additions,VirtualBox 4.1.18,invalid,"xorg 1.12, guest additions",,Linux,other