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

[astrid_emde]

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

• the issue was tested alpha1 (2018-06-11) and ​http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/18.04/release/

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

[camerons]

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.

[camerons]

VirtualBox settings with Lubuntu 18.04 image

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Try Ubuntu page

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Log messages

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Lubuntu Logo page

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Final fuzzy - non-rendered Lubuntu desktop page

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

[astrid_emde]

• tested with beta1.: Error still occurs when you run Lubuntu without installation -> shortcut helps Right Ctrl F3 & Right Ctrl F7.

[kalxas]

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

[kalxas]

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?

[bakaniko]

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.

[micha]

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...

[kalxas]

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

[kalxas]

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

[sethg]

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

[kalxas]

We should add this setting in the Virtual Machine quickstart.

[kalxas]

​https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/commit/063c3b862070449903b5e5fcb9d0c35c8de7fe59

[kalxas]

Could not replicate the issue on 12.0 vm version

[bakaniko]

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