Last xserver-xorg-core makes X crash with VBoxVideo (fix will be in 1.4.2)

[DrBrex]

System: VirtualBox 1.3.8 on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04

Guest operating system: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 with latest updates

Problem: After the last update in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) X doesn't start anymore with vboxvideo driver, need to use vesa.

The update which created the problem is:

xserver-xorg-core-2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-4ubuntu1

X crash with VBoxVideo but works with Vesa.

xorg log of crash is here: ​http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/1032/vboxvideodj9.png

[Frank Mehnert]

Works fine with VBox-HEAD from svn.

[DrBrex]

we need a new version with it fixed then

[harty83]

I'm using same setup as DrBrex only using VB version 1.4.0. X crashes with vboxvideo but does not crash with the vesa driver. I'm not seeing any obvious cause in the xorg log. Can anyone else confirm?

[harty83]

my xorg log

[Frank Mehnert]

This will probably not solve your problem but please replace the 'mouse' driver by 'vboxmouse' and post the resulting Xorg.0.log again.

[harty83]

xorg log after adding vboxmouse

[harty83]

You are right it did not solve the problem but I attached the xorg log as requested.

[Frank Mehnert]

Workaround: Add the following section to /etc/X11/xorg.conf of your guest:

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option  "Xinerama" "true"
EndSection

We are investigating the problem.

[harty83]

Thanks. Only problem is that with that setup, it says that the xrandr extension could not be used or loaded or something like that so I can't change my resolution without physically changing it in the xorg file. Please let me know if I can do anything to aid in the investigation.

[Frank Mehnert]

We fixed this issue in svn. The fix is included in the next release of VirtualBox.

[harty83]

Any clue when the next release will be?

[Piotr Orzechowski]

This problem re-surfaced again on VBox 1.5.2

Host OS: Windows XP

Guest OS: Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy gibbon)

The workaround with "Xinerama" set to "true" fortunately still works :)

[Michael Thayer]

Replying to piotr2012:

Are you sure that you installed the guest additions from VirtualBox 1.5.2 in that machine? I know that it may not help you much, but here it works out of the box.

[Frank Mehnert]

Same here, works fine with a Gutsy guest. Please could you attach the Xorg.0.log file of your guest?

[Piotr Orzechowski]

My Gutsy was an on-line upgrade from Feisty which had the guest additions installed. However now that, I reinstalled the guest additions it works. Thank you. We can close this one.

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks for the report.