Debian Multimedia :: Virtualbox GUI Is Black Or Night Mode - Guests Boot OK
Oct 17, 2015
I posted this over in the VirtualBox forums but was directed to the debian forums as it was the debian fork.VBoxManage and all virtualbox GUI elements are black with white text ("night mode" in other apps) with no borders or other useful Gui bits. Apparently the board image quota is reached (?) but you can see it here: URL...All the guests work, it's just this GUI issue.
Code: Select allii virtualbox               4.3.30-dfsg-1+deb8u1         amd64    x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
rc virtualbox-4.3             4.3.30-101610~Debian~wheezy     amd64    Oracle VM VirtualBox
ii virtualbox-dkms            4.3.30-dfsg-1+deb8u1         all     x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
ii virtualbox-qt             4.3.30-dfsg-1+deb8u1         amd64    x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
vbox-install log on other board,I upgraded from Debian 7 stable to Debian 8 stable. I haven't used virtualbox in a long time, so maybe I somehow did this myself, but I'm not sure where that is if I did.
I couldn't find anything else in /var/log that would be useful. It's across all users. I checked the launch scripts /usr/bin/virtualbox, /usr/bin/ vbox manage, and /var/lib/virtualbox/*
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Feb 20, 2011
I recently came to Debian. As I have an ati card, I tried the proprietary drivers first, but then came back to radeon (open-source). In the process, I think I may have broke my xorg.conf . Sometimes, when the monitor goes into sleep mode, when I came back, the screen remains black (sometimes I see just the cursor).
Here is my xorg.conf
# NOXORGCONFEXISTED: No X.org configuration file existed when this backup was created.
Also, I have lots of backups in my X11 folder, like xorg.conf.fglrx-3, xorg.conf.original-1, or backup.xorg.conf. Is it safe to remove them? What should I do about the main xorg.conf?
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Virtual Machines run under non-root user. I was thinking about making a script in /etc/init.d/ in order to start certain VMs and to stop every VM running when system is halted. Is this really the simplest and most secure approach?
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[URL]
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[sudo] password for paul:
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
[code]....
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[code]...
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telinit 3
telinit 4
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