[SOLVED] Oracle VM VirtualBox Crash before displaying developer screen (Oh no! Something has gone wrong)

agrorian · 03-07-2018, 06:23 AM

I installed Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.28 in my windows 7 Professional 64 bit and want to work with Debian 8 Linux project. The installation is successful and the Virtual Machine starts but before displaying the developer screen in my Virtual Box, I get a light grey screen with an error

Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occured and the system can't recover. Please contact a system administartor

Snapshot of the error is given under

https://sabercathost.com/5a6a/Error.jpg

I installed the same VirtualBox with same settings for RAM in my notebook and one other system and it works all fine. Could any one please help me out with the problem.

The VBox.log file is given under

https://sabercathost.com/5a69/VBox.log

AwesomeMachine · 03-08-2018, 10:43 PM

That means an error has occurred with the GUI. You can get to a terminal with CTRL-ALT-F1. You can log in and run commands to fix the problem. From the command line run

Code:

$ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and look for lines with EE. Tell us what they say. You can also try upgrading the packages

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$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

That might fix the problem by itself. You can also try

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$ dmesg

and look at the end of it for clues. Tell us what it says. Not the whole thing, just the last 10 lines.

Look at /home/user/.xsession-errors and /var/log/gdm/\:0.log using the less command. The gdm directory is protected so you might have to sudo to run the command less.

Code:

$ sudo less /var/log/gdm/\:0.log

Tell us what you find in those too.

agrorian · 03-09-2018, 03:14 AM

Hello Awesome Machine

Thank you for such a detailed reply.

With "$ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log" I got the following (EE) lines

Code:

(EE) Failed to load Module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such files or directory 
(EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such files or directory 
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such files or directory
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such files or directory
(EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section
(EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

Then I cross checked it with my laptop VirtualBox. I got the exact same lines for EE but the VirtualBox works all fine there and does not crash.

With "$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" It runs the update and upgrade but does not resolve the problem. I get some errors at the end like

Code:

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/wpa/wpasupplicant_2.3-1+deb8u4_amd64.deb Could not resolve 'ftp.de.debian.org
Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-maps/gnome-maps_3.14.3.1-1_amd64.deb Could not resolve 'ftp.de.debian.org

I cross checked it too with laptop VirtualBox and it gives me the same errors there too but still the VirtualBox works fine.

With "$ dmesg" it gives me

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IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
floppy0 : no floppy controllers found
work still pending

But in my laptop is gives some additional lines

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e1000: eth0 NIC Link is up 1000Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
floppy0 : no floppy controllers found
work still pending

Could it be a problem of eth0 and IPv6?

With "$ sudo less /var/log/gdm/\:0.log" it gives me "No such file or directory".

I am still clueless where to catch the problem.

DavidMcCann · 03-09-2018, 10:59 AM

You might find something in your home directory: a file .xsession-errors
The error screen looks a bit like it comes grom the Gnome desktop.

AwesomeMachine · 03-12-2018, 08:42 AM

I messed up. The log file should be in the /var/log/gdm3 directory.

agrorian · 03-13-2018, 02:53 AM

I checked the ".xsession-errors" directory. It gives me the following lines

Quote:

X session started for root at Mon Mar 12 15:01:04 CET 2018
localuser:root being added to access control list
openConnection: connect : No such file or directory
cannot connect to brltty at : 0
gnome-session-is-accelerated: llvmpipe detected.

I don't think there is a problem here because I checked it on my laptop. I got the exact same lines and VirtualBox is working fine there.

With "sudo less /var/log/gdm3" it says

Quote:

/var/log/gdm3 is a directory

It does not go beyond this level. I dont know if it is empty or I dont have access to files. I try to see what is inside the directory but it does not show me anything.

agrorian · 03-14-2018, 03:17 AM

I just checked my system and found that I have Intel Pentium G4400 CPU which has 2 cores and 2 threads with Hyperthreading not supported. Could it be a problem with cores and threading?

Or could it be a problem with Graphical compatibility as I do not have an extra Graphical Card in my system. Could installing a new Grpahical card solve the issue?

agrorian · 03-19-2018, 06:45 AM

The issue has been resolved with the help of the following link.

https://mike632t.wordpress.com/2016/...nome-3-jessie/

AwesomeMachine · 03-20-2018, 04:07 PM

OK, thanks for posting the solution.