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netbook UI doesn't load in Virtualbox

Bug #644899 reported by astronic on 2010-09-22

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #688947: unity does not work in VirtualBox guest. Edit Remove

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Triaged	Low	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

I am trying to use the current Ubuntu 10.10 beta of the netbook edition inside a VirtualBox VM, but the netbook UI session doesn't get loaded, Instead just the default wallpaper is shown (without mouse cursor) and no system activity happens. The system itself is not frozen though, I can CTRL+ALT+F1 my way out, stop gdm and even successfully start a GNOME session with "startx", so it doesn't seem to be an X server problem, it's just the netbook UI session that is unable to load.

Reproducability with LiveCD:
- Boot the Ubuntu 10.10 beta Netbook Live CD inside a VirtualBox VM
- Select "Try it out" instead of "Install" (installing works fine)
- experience the freeze

Reproducability with installed system:
- Install Ubuntu 10.10 beta Netbook edition from the Live CD inside a VirtualBox VM
- when the freeze happens CTRL+ALT+F1 to console and run "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" to update the beta with a lot of more recent packages
- reboot and still experience the freeze

If there is some log files you might need, please tell me what I should provide.

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote on 2010-09-25:

Hello
Is this issue reproducible with the latest build
Thanks
Fabio

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Incomplete

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astronic (bugreports-tittel) wrote on 2010-09-28:

If you mean by "latest build" updating to the latest package versions by "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade", then yes: The issue is still reproducible.

Sam (samwho) on 2010-10-02

affects:

ubuntu → unity (Ubuntu)

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sciencewhiz (christmasboy-81) wrote on 2010-10-03:

I see this also on my EEEPC 1000hd. Launching the UNR 2d works fine, however.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote on 2010-10-09:

Thanks for reporting this bug, it's still incomplete however (there should be no other issue with virtualbox, it should just say it's not supported).

Can we have some info about your card? It's better to report a bug with ubuntu-bug unity which will provides us the needed info. Thanks.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) on 2010-10-09

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New
status:	New → Incomplete

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2010-10-10:

I have not tried but I have seen other people having the same issue i.e. unity not working in virtualbox.

summary:

- netbook UI doesn't load
+ netbook UI doesn't load in Virtualbox

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote on 2010-10-10:

@Omer: people using virtualbox which doesn't have the acceleration support will have the message about "not supported". That's how I wrote and debug it btw :-)

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote on 2010-10-26:

Even with the acceleration, it seems to not be supported, rise the status of the bug then. It will hopefully be fixed with the compiz migration.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Triaged
Changed in unity:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low