Wayland Login Manager Borks Login process in Fedora 24

[jerrysVB]

Host: MacOSX 10.11.6 Guest: Fedora 24 VB 5.1.6 I am not sure when this happened, but recently.

In the current version of Fedora 24 the Wayland Login Manager is used. Booting Fedora give a blank grey screen.

If I manually refresh the screen ( minimize or drag a window over the VM window) My login name will appear.

If I click on the login name and manually refresh the screen the password box will appear.

If I click on the password box and blind type ( no dots appear as I type) the password and hit return I will be presented with the desktop and everything ( except sound) works. Bummer.

If I go to /etc/gdm/custom.conf and uncomment out the line:

  # WaylandEnable=false

and reboot there is no problem ( well sound randomly appears and vanishes ).

I think Wayland will be the default in Fedora 25 so y'all might want to find out why the login screen is not properly being refreshed.

[frank]

Could you install the latest 5.1.x Guest Additions from the test builds page (>= revision 110639) and check if the problem is fixed?

[amasover]

I am seeing exactly the same behavior in Fedora 25, VB 5.1.10, VB Guest Additions 5.1.10.

Uncommenting the "WaylandEnable=false" line is the only way that I can seem to login.

[michael]

Please give the current development (not 5.1) test build<1> of the Guest Additions a try.

1. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds#development_snapshots

[Dr. Moro]

No change even with the latest test build of the Guest Additions! And the Xorg is buggy and too sluggish for regular use! Any fix soon?!

[michael]

Does this happen with fresh guest installs? If not, could you please find the critical difference?

[michael]

Also, please test with 3D disabled (possible duplicate of #16360). And please attach a log file - see the instructions here:

https://www.virtualbox.org/newticket