Yesterday's updates breaks Virtualbox 15.2 guest with MATE desktop black screen in X

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#1

Similar to this issue but not the same results.
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/540279-Newest-Kernel-with-MATE-black-screen-previous-kernel-works-fine

I don’t know if it is the virtualbox kernel guest code or the new kernel - going back to the last kernel to see - it has to be the virtualbox kernel code as the previous kernel that worked is also black screen.

I am going to save the previous virtualbox rpm and see if it works. They are not there to download

+ wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/x86_64/virtualbox-guest-tools-6.1.8-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm virtualbox-guest-tools-6.1.8-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/x86_64/virtualbox-guest-tools-6.1.8-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm: No such file or directory
+ wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/x86_64/virtualbox-guest-x11-6.1.8-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm virtualbox-guest-x11-6.1.8-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/x86_64/virtualbox-guest-x11-6.1.8-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm: No such file or directory
+ wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/x86_64/virtualbox-kmp-default-6.1.8_k5.3.18_lp152.16-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm virtualbox-kmp-default-6.1.8_k5.3.18_lp152.16-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/x86_64/virtualbox-kmp-default-6.1.8_k5.3.18_lp152.16-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm: No such file or directory
+ wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/x86_64/virtualbox-qt-6.1.8-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm virtualbox-qt-6.1.8-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/x86_64/virtualbox-qt-6.1.8-lp152.1.4.x86_64.rpm: No such file or directory

Now trying without the virtualbox updates using packagekit

#2

Confirmed it is the new Virtualbox Kernel kmp - restored last good backup and I updated everything but the 3 virtualbox updates and all is fine.

Creating bugzilla on it.

It is sad the the repos shows the old versions but you cannot get them.

#3

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172590

submitted

#4

Hi
AFAIK the beta version is a moving target and unlikely to have old packages in the repository (since it becomes the iso image after each build)…

Maybe wait a few days… likely things are blocked with the gcc update in Tumbleweed, this has to feed out to the development repositories, it all has a downstream affect on (thousands of) packages.

Likewise with package maintainers (all of one person), consider they may be busy with other priorities, a bug report just adds to their workload…

Consider looking around first? https://build.opensuse.org/monitor

Look at the rebuild reason? https://build.opensuse.org/packages/virtualbox/build_reason/openSUSE:Leap:15.2/standard/x86_64

So, there are a few places of interest to visit :wink: After all this is a Community release…

#5

Good news is today’s build fixed the issue with VirtualBox .17. It appears that some library that got replaced today fixed the issue.

#6

It is broken again after updating and then rebooting today.

using right-ctrl + insert and F4 and login as root:

zypper rm virtualbox-kmp-default will bring it back to use without the keyboard and mouse intergration.

Yes, I know 15.2 is a work in progress but it would be nice if they would test it in a virtualbox 15.2 image.

#7

I was wrong - even with the virtualbox rm with zypper - the mouse and keyboard still are integrated!

Nothing is installed but it says via right-ctl+n is 6.0.0r127566 is installed.

I did not install that but it is there - is it built-in 15.2?