Bug 717713 - vbox: Broken Linux console after starting X
Summary: vbox: Broken Linux console after starting X
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 12.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: X.Org (show other bugs)
Version: Milestone 5
Hardware: x86-64 SUSE Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Michal Seben
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Reported: 2011-09-14 08:50 UTC by Freek de Kruijf
Modified: 2011-10-10 13:14 UTC (History)
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screendump with VirtualBox window (158.17 KB, image/png)
2011-09-14 08:50 UTC, Freek de Kruijf 		Details
The requested Xorg.0.log (24.07 KB, text/plain)
2011-09-14 12:59 UTC, Freek de Kruijf 		Details
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Description Freek de Kruijf 2011-09-14 08:50:03 UTC 
Created attachment 450628 [details]
screendump with VirtualBox window

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2

Starting openSUSE 12.1 M5 x86_64 in VirtualBox up to init 3 gives a normal screen on tty1. After going into init 5, the screen gets a strange appearance, looks like a very low resolution screen. Only the upper left part of the screen gets more or less displayed. See attachment.

I did not have this problem with M3 in VirtualBox, nor with earlier versions of openSUSE.

I did remove the nouveau driver, but that did not change anything.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2011-09-14 10:16:26 UTC 
Please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Thanks.
Comment 2 Freek de Kruijf 2011-09-14 12:58:13 UTC 
This seems to be caused by VirtualBoxGuestAdditions installed in openSUSE. Without installation there is no problem. But I will attach the requested file.
Comment 3 Freek de Kruijf 2011-09-14 12:59:30 UTC 
Created attachment 450701 [details]
The requested Xorg.0.log
Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2011-09-14 14:10:17 UTC 
Hmm. Nothing obvious in the logfile I could spot. Resolution for X:

Modeline "1182x819"x0.0   58.80  1182 1184 1186 1188  819 821 823 825 -hsync -vsync (49.5 kHz)

Does this make sense?
Comment 5 Freek de Kruijf 2011-09-14 15:00:55 UTC 
No this does not make sense. The resolution of the KDE screen is 1024x786.
By enabling Automatic adaption of guest screen, I can change the size of the KDE screen on tty7, however when I go back to the console (tty1) the size of the window goes back to its original size.
Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2011-09-14 15:08:24 UTC 
Michael, since you're still doing the vbox updates in openSUSE: Is this a known issue? Regression in virtualbox package or Kernel?
Comment 7 Michal Seben 2011-09-16 08:59:39 UTC 
probably vbox issue,
bug was already reported in upstream :
http://www.virtualbox.de/ticket/9490

for workaround drop string vga=0x317 in grub option
Comment 8 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-10-10 13:00:07 UTC 
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (717713) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/87257 Factory / virtualbox
Comment 9 Freek de Kruijf 2011-10-10 13:14:29 UTC 
Fixed in VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9490#comment:19