In case somebody struggles with getting sddm-greeter up and running when booting
42.1 in a VirtualBox instance: I noticed that the system log showed “invalid opcode”,
causing sddm-greeter to crash during boot (resulting in a black screen but console access).
The workaround is to enable PAE/NX as part of the processor settings (verified on VB 5.0.10 with VB guest
extension installed).
Also enabling 3d acceleration in the video settings allowed me to change the cursor scheme to Adwaita
(otherwise the corresponding systemsettings plugin would crash, complaining about a missing shared library).
Hopes that helps some people who are working on getting Leap 42.1 to run in a VB environment.
You should report on bugzilla with any crash detail you can recover so that it can be addressed and hopefully fixed.
Use the same log in as here and pleas post back the report url so other may follow
https://en.opensuse.org/Bugzilla
Hm. Can this even be disabled for a 64bit guest?
AFAIK PAE/NX is a 32bit thing…
Also enabling 3d acceleration in the video settings allowed me to change the cursor scheme to Adwaita
(otherwise the corresponding systemsettings plugin would crash, complaining about a missing shared library).
Actually VirtualBox’s 3D acceleration breaks Plasma5 (and maybe SDDM as well) in my experience (haven’t tried Leap though as I can only run 32bit guests because of missing hardware virtualization support on my 64bit CPU).
I never had any problem running Tumbleweed including Plasma5 and SDDM in VirtualBox (with 3D disabled that is).
What missing shared library does it complain about?