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Micronaut

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Registered: 2019-07-04

Posts: 228  

Devuan 4.0 in a VirtualBox VM cannot finish booting

I've got a copy of Devuan 4 running in a VM so I can use Google Chrome for certain things without upgrading to Windows 10. It has been working flawlessly for months, but today I got a small update of some sort, I forget what the packages were, and when I restart it won't finish booting. I can sign in, but the desktop never appears, it just sits there with a black screen. Was there an update to display functions in some recent packages?

alexkemp

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Registered: 2018-05-14

Posts: 357  

Re: Devuan 4.0 in a VirtualBox VM cannot finish booting

I got a bunch of Bind updates today:

$ tail /var/log/apt/history.log
Commandline: apt upgrade
Requested-By: alexk (1000)
Upgrade: josm-latest:amd64 (1.5.svn18763, 1.5.svn18765), libx11-xcb1:amd64 (2:1.7.2-1, 2:1.7.2-1+deb11u1), libx11-data:amd64 (2:1.7.2-1, 2:1.7.2-1+deb11u1), libx11-dev:amd64 (2:1.7.2-1, 2:1.7.2-1+deb11u1), libx11-doc:amd64 (2:1.7.2-1, 2:1.7.2-1+deb11u1), libx11-6:amd64 (2:1.7.2-1, 2:1.7.2-1+deb11u1)
End-Date: 2023-06-21  10:57:12

Start-Date: 2023-06-26  15:49:36
Commandline: apt upgrade
Requested-By: alexk (1000)
Upgrade: josm-latest:amd64 (1.5.svn18765, 1.5.svn18770), bind9-host:amd64 (1:9.16.37-1~deb11u1, 1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1), bind9-dnsutils:amd64 (1:9.16.37-1~deb11u1, 1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1), bind9-libs:amd64 (1:9.16.37-1~deb11u1, 1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1), dnsutils:amd64 (1:9.16.37-1~deb11u1, 1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1)
End-Date: 2023-06-26  15:50:44

Micronaut

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Registered: 2019-07-04

Posts: 228  

Re: Devuan 4.0 in a VirtualBox VM cannot finish booting

Dunno what it was, but it would not load to desktop. I first shut it down and turned off 3D acceleration. That seemed to work, but it complained about possible excess CPU usage. When shut down again and restored the 3D acceleration, it still loaded to desktop. So, maybe it just needed the shutdown and restart?