[Solved] VirtualBox 2.2_OSEr18839 hangs on 1st startup

lyallp · Last edited by lyallp on Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:38 am; edited 1 time in total

Does anyone else experience a blank window on VirtualBox startup, which, if I kill (hard) and re-start, causes VirtualBox to startup normally?

It's as though it's trying to phone home and doesnt' try to the second time.

I start VirtualBox as root (using sudo).

Anyone?
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coolsnowmen · Veteran Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 1479 Location: No.VA

I alsa have this problem with Virtualbox-ose-2.2.0 from dev-jokey. I used 2.1.4 w/no problem like this, and I run as user. No ideas yet, but I havn't looked. Please post if you find anymore info.
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jmartos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 76

I'm seeing this exact same problem. I'm using virtualbox-bin from the pokey repo. Nothing else changed otheer than the virtualbox-bin and virtualbox-modules upgrade. It only seems to do this on the first start. If I close virtualbox-bin and restart, it always works.

lyallp · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:38 am Post subject:

Disable the Phone Home setting in preferfences, Update Tab

Seemed to fix it for me - and all pretty pointless anyway since I install by ebuild.
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jmartos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 76

Thanks. That fixed it for me. I wonder why 2.1.4 did not have this problem.

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:13 pm Post subject:

mieses · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 110

If restarting VirtualBox does not solve the GUI display problem, then edit ~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml and set GUI/UpdateDate to "never":

sl70 · Guru Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 449 Location: Saitama, JP

Wowee. I had the same problem, and setting GUI/UpdateDate to "never" fixed it for me, too. However, is this a bad thing? Should I/Can I set it back to something else?

Thanks, Mieses!

mieses · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 110

If you are using portage to update VirtualBox, then I don't think it is important whether VirtualBox checks for updates (what people refer to as "phone home").

If you need VirtualBox to notify you of updates, then try enabling the setting in VirtualBox Preferences GUI when a newer version of virtualbox is released to portage.

jchau · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 74

I know you have this solved already, but I thought I should link this to the bug report about this (#266939).

col · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:54 am Post subject:

Yeah worked for me to....virtualbox was starting up with an empty grey screen.

Condex · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject:

LordArthas · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject:

++ Edited the XML file and virtualbox-bin 2.2 started working again!!! Thanks.
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bec · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 8:37 pm Post subject:

Thanks !!
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regomodo · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 445