Can't Run KDE 4.5.5 in VirtualBox
I installed Current (Feb. 28) in VirtualBox. The install went fine.
I can boot into Xfce and Fluxbox with the startx command. KDE bombs, somewhere just after the fourth icon of the startup display. In my first attempt I installed the VB guest additions. I figured that might be the problem. I wiped the virtual machine and tried again. In my second attempt I did not immediately install the guest additions. Same result. I copied xorg.conf-vesa to xorg.conf. No help, same result as with no xorg.conf. I am not booting the system with any framebuffer, just normal vga. Without the VB guest additions, the system is at 800x600 resolution. Because of the tiny screen, I cannot read all of the error messages. The scrollback buffer is to small to read all of the messages. Some of the messages make no sense to me. For example, there is a message that plasma-desktop cannot find the dbus session server. Yet rc.messagebus is enabled and running, and a file in ~/.kde/dbus/session-bus exists. I see messages about fatal errors with references to *.cpp files at /tmp/kde-4.5.5. The Xorg.0.log says there was a segmentation fault at address (nil), but there are no (EE) errors in the log. There is no xsession-error log. I started xfce. From there installed the VB guest additions. Rebooted. No framebuffer (vga=normal). I was able to run Xfce and fluxbox in a nice 1664x929 display resolution. Mouse and keyboard worked transparently. I edited lilo.conf for vga=791 to enlarge the console screen size. I rebooted, tested X again, then exited. I changed to KDE. Same results. Bomb. This time I saw two (EE) error messages in Xorg.0.log regarding vboxvideo and disabling DRI. Here is part of the xorg log: Code:
Backtrace: Otherwise I have had no other problems in VB. Ideas? Thanks. |
Google has been no help so far on this. That said, since xfce and fluxbox seem to run fine, I am wondering if you have enough memory allocated to run kde. The last time I had Slackware in VBox, I allocated 1500mb for that machine. But that's been over a year ago.
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Per your suggestion I tried 1.5 GB RAM and 128MB video. No go. :( |
It's been posted in this forum and hinted to in the changelog :)
You have to disable composite. Quote:
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The challenge with "hints" is that those of us who are clueless are not always quick to recognize the instructions as a hint. :scratch: :) Thank you! |
Another thing is that mesa had flipped flopped a couple of times in current since then, so that text is pretty far down the line.
It just so happened I had the same issue. I downgraded mesa, until someone else posted the correct solution. |
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