Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#2074 closed defect (fixed)

blue screen xorg error: problems when starting Lubuntu 18.4. or OSGeoLive 12 alpha1 with virtual box

Reported by: astrid_emde Owned by: osgeolive@…
Priority: major Milestone: OSGeoLive12.0
Component: OSGeoLive Keywords:
Cc: osgeolive@…

Description

when you run OSGeoLive builds with virtual box (without installation) it can happen, that you get stuck in a blue screen. Then it can help to type Right Ctrl F1 & Right Ctrl F7. But in some cases this does not help and you can't start OSGeoLive

Steps to reproduce

  • Download http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/12.0/
  • create a virtual machine with virtual box (Linux/Ubuntu64 bit)
  • start and choose the iso
  • choose the language
  • can see the screen Lubuntu 18.4
  • but then the blue screen shows up and nothing else happens

Attachments (5)

Screen Shot 2018-06-23 at 9.16.22 am.png (140.5 KB ) - added by camerons 6 years ago.
VirtualBox settings with Lubuntu 18.04 image
Screen Shot 2018-06-23 at 9.18.08 am.png (29.8 KB ) - added by camerons 6 years ago.
Try Ubuntu page
Screen Shot 2018-06-23 at 9.19.39 am.png (31.8 KB ) - added by camerons 6 years ago.
Log messages
Screen Shot 2018-06-23 at 9.22.36 am.png (46.3 KB ) - added by camerons 6 years ago.
Lubuntu Logo page
Screen Shot 2018-06-23 at 9.23.31 am.png (323.2 KB ) - added by camerons 6 years ago.
Final fuzzy - non-rendered Lubuntu desktop page

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Change history (20)

comment:1 by camerons, 6 years ago

To clarify for external readers, the OSGeo-Live image we use is based upon Lubuntu 18.04, and I have been able to reproduce our problem with a raw Lubuntu 18.04 image, confirming this is an upstream issue with Lubuntu rather than an issue with OSGeo-Live (which is based on Lubuntu). Steps I've used:

  • Host hardware is Macbook Air,
  • Host operating system: macOS High Serera, version 10.13.5.
  • Virtual Machine: VirtualBox 5.2.12
  • Client ISO image: lubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso
  • From Virtual Box, boot from ISO
  • Select "Try Ubuntu without installing"
  • See some log messages
  • See blue Ubuntu logo page
  • briefly see a black page
  • See a fuzzy blue page which appears to be the Lubuntu main page which hasn't been rendered correctly (you can move the mouse around and see corresponding movement on the page)

Attached are screen shots of this sequence.

by camerons, 6 years ago

VirtualBox settings with Lubuntu 18.04 image

by camerons, 6 years ago

Try Ubuntu page

by camerons, 6 years ago

Log messages

by camerons, 6 years ago

Lubuntu Logo page

by camerons, 6 years ago

Final fuzzy - non-rendered Lubuntu desktop page

comment:2 by camerons, 6 years ago

I've reported this issue upstream at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lubuntu-artwork/+bug/1778309

comment:3 by astrid_emde, 6 years ago

  • tested with beta1.: Error still occurs when you run Lubuntu without installation -> shortcut helps Right Ctrl F3 & Right Ctrl F7.
Last edited 6 years ago by astrid_emde (previous) (diff)

comment:4 by kalxas, 6 years ago

Tested with beta2 and new Lubuntu 18.04.1 iso. Both have the same issue.

comment:5 by kalxas, 6 years ago

Cc: osgeolive@… added
Priority: normalcritical

comment:6 by kalxas, 6 years ago

Just confirmed that this issue is not valid with latest Virtual Box (5.2.10) on a Linux host. Can someone please test the latest version of VirtualBox on Windows and Mac?

comment:7 by bakaniko, 6 years ago

Tested osgeolive-nightly-build200-amd64-34cddf6-master.iso On windows 10 professional machine.

No issues with the iso, no blue screen, window resizing works correctly

It is a intel corei5 machine with intel hd graphics 530 video chipset. so pretty basic Forgot to check the virtualbox version, not the latest as it proposed to update. Probably 4 to 6 months old.

comment:8 by micha, 6 years ago

The recent beta2 started fine in Virtualbox 5.2.8 on a Windows 7 host. No issues with blue screen. The desktop resized automatically (Vbox additions already installed). Nice...

comment:9 by kalxas, 6 years ago

Thanks! We need someone to confirm this works on Mac in order to dismiss this ticket.

comment:10 by kalxas, 6 years ago

We still need a volunteer with a Mac to test latest VirtualBox and latest beta.

comment:11 by sethg, 6 years ago

I had the same issue - see mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/osgeolive/2018-August/013433.html

I needed to "Enable 3D Acceleration" in the settings: https://imgur.com/a/XxaudE0

This was not the case for OSGeoLive 11 so I guess this should be added to the installation notes?

PC details which may be relevant:

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 17134) (17134.rs4_release.180410-1804)           
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Last edited 6 years ago by sethg (previous) (diff)

comment:12 by kalxas, 6 years ago

We should add this setting in the Virtual Machine quickstart.

comment:14 by kalxas, 6 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Could not replicate the issue on 12.0 vm version

comment:15 by bakaniko, 5 years ago

This issue seems to be Ubuntu related, it appends in Ubuntu MATE as well:

https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-cosmic-beta/

"This appears to impact Ubuntu (proper) more than Ubuntu MATE. It is an intermitent problem on Ubuntu MATE and simply resetting the VM may work on the next boot. If not, press a key when the initial boot prompt (Man and Keyboard) is displayed, then press F6 and select nomodeset and press ENTER to boot."

Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1792932

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