Ask Ubuntu Asked on November 11, 2021
I successfully upgraded my Ubuntu 18.04 VM (Virtualbox 6.1 hosted on MacOS) to 20.04, but the gnome display manager login prompt doesn’t appear. I see the ubuntu splash screen, and then it goes black and unresponsive.
X11 worked fine before the upgrade with a default run level of 5.
I can boot with runlevel 3, and manually run startx from tty1 after that without error. If I try telinit 5, then I also see an ubuntu splash screen, then black screen. About a minute after that, any ssh sessions that I have active become unresponsive, and I also cannot tty switch back to the console with F1-6. At that point I have to powerdown the VM, and either let the fsck
run or restore from a previous snapshot.
The graphics adapter, as seen in ubuntu is:
$ lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|Display'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter [80ee:beef]
Are there any known issues that would explain this? If not, I’d appreciate some diagnostic tips.
I ran 'dmesg -w' in an ssh session while I tried 'sudo telinit 5' in the VM display, and saw the following message before the machine became unresponsive:
[ 219.138358] [drm] Error -12 pinning new fb, out of video mem?
Bumping up the video memory to 32Mb seems to handle the issue (despite the fact that vbox says that's not a valid setting.)
Answered by Peeter Joot on November 11, 2021
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