VBoxclient: Failure waiting for event, rc-VERR_INVALID_HANDLE

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#1

Hello,

I’ve installed TW from DVD ISO-image in VB 6.1.30_SUSE (installed XFCE desktop)
Host OS is TW.
After login in, a flood of notifications VBoxclient: Failure waiting for event, rc-VERR_INVALID_HANDLE is covering my screen.
I tried to restart and got a blank screen. Tried restarting again, got to the desktop with the notification spam again.
Randomly there is a blank screen or a desktop with a flood of notifications VBoxclient: Failure waiting for event, rc-VERR_INVALID_HANDLE.

Please help with any suggestions.

Kind regards.

#2

I have seen that where the virtualbox-x11-guest writes all over the right of the screen.

This is what I had to do to fix my VirtualBox Tumbleweed VM.

using a virtualbox terminal (right ctrl + insert + f2 ) you might have to hit the combo a few times to get the terminal to show.
login as root
zypper rm virtualbox-x11-guest
reboot

I then “zypper al virtualbox-x11-guest” to keep if from reinstalling.

#3

Hi,

Pretty much a complete beginner with Linux and OpenSuse but happy to say the above resolved my issue, with one minor alteration - it should read “sudo zypper rm virtualbox-guest-x11” (or at least that’s what I found :smiley: )

But thanks anyway, no more annoying pop ups!

Now to figure out Guest Additions :slight_smile:

Cheers!

#4

virtualbox-guest-x11 is part of guest additions. What is output of “id -a” in terminal when you are logged in?

Edit: this should be fixed in upcoming Tumbleweed: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194065