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nadir

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## remix in VirtualBox fails to start X

Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:38 pm

My remix, called LullySec, fails to startx in VirtualBox
Been a while i have had problems with VirtualBox, hence not sure how to troubleshoot, could need some help.
It was based on stable.
I upgraded to testing, short ago, but i think that worked for a while (Been doing other things).
I don't get much error messages, i think.
gdm starts, i enter "user" and "user", after a while i get the gdm-login again (tried it a few times in a row)
Looking at Xorg.0.Log all i get is some EE's about vboxmouse and vboxdriver (?).
I rebuild the guest-additions, but to no avail.
I copied a xorg.conf from my backups, again no luck.
Anyone has got an idea?
(being cli only it is not that easy to copy logs, but if needed i will be able to. Not sure which ones neither).
fsmithred

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## Re: remix in VirtualBox fails to start X

Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:56 pm

If you haven't already tried this, stop gdm and try startx. Then you can see if it's a problem with gdm or xorg. It should work without xorg.conf.
nadir

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## Re: remix in VirtualBox fails to start X

Sat Oct 13, 2012 6:21 pm

Yeah, i tried that, stopping gdm and startx, and it fails too.
Pretty clueless how to go on.
Never sure bout xorg.conf and VirtualBox, thanks for that info.
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## Re: remix in VirtualBox fails to start X

Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:27 pm

Have you tried maybe qemu or kvm just to see if it makes a difference....not that I expect it to.
might also try to login and startx as root
nadir

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## Re: remix in VirtualBox fails to start X

Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:46 am

tried it as root too, same result.
pretty clueless right now.
not sure how to run a Vbox in qemu, can't run kvm (i think, needs processor features, i think)
Will try to install the iso to hardware and see if the same problem will occur.
damn.
nadir

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## Re: remix in VirtualBox fails to start X

Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:11 am

It suddenly started again. I don't know why.
Besides of all of the above i did a few upgrades and dist-upgrades.
Perhaps only a fart of VirtualBox, i really don't know.
Let me see if it will still work tomorrow.
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## Re: remix in VirtualBox fails to start X

Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:55 pm

I think i found the solution.
In short: I removed xul-ext-monkeysphere
In long:
I had a message in xsessions-errors which mentioned a pattern like "monkeysphere" as a failing command in the file -usr-share-perl5-Crypt.
I removed monkeysphere, and that didn't help. I wouldn't have thought xul-ext-monkeysphere, as an iceweasel plugin, would be a problem to startx.
I didn't save xsessions-errors, else i could post the full message with the full path.
Let's hope that was the problem.
Not sure if it was a problem with VirtualBox, with xul-ext-monkeysphere or with the upgrade (or with something completely different).
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