On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Tirthankar <Tirthankar.Das at sun.com> wrote: > On 05/17/09 20:09, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Tirthankar <Tirthankar.Das at sun.com> wrote: > > > That helped :) > The VBGuest additions was creating problems. Removing and reinstalling the > VB guest additions? fixed the issue though it required a mysterious boot in > single user mode where i did nothing. > > > Hey, I just recalled that I've faced this problem before myself, but > with Ubuntu. > > How did looking at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log help ? Were there any > messages related to VBGuest additions ? > > > > Yep. VBGuest addition some module failed to load. Don't remember the name. > Uninstalling guest additions and then re installing and then booting didn't > help. Just for fun booted to single user and then booted back and it worked. > > > Unfortunately my VM is back to the old state of not booting in GUI mode and > the culprit is "vboxvideo" module. It fails to load. Dont know why. >
Can you check the output of dmesg. Are there any vbox related messages ? Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
