Wait, I have done some testing last night and now I think it is NOT caused by the xorg.conf, but by the virtualbox stuff.
* I made a usb with the xorg.conf removed and the virtualbox-ose- guest-x11 removed, and it booted OK on my Eee. * I made a usb with the xorg.conf removed and the virtualbox-ose- guest-x11 present, and it caused the same crashloop on my Eee. Can someone else please test and confirm this? It takes a while for me to test things and I only have one machine to test on. If this turns out to be the general case then it would suggest that virtualbox-ose- guest-x11 should be removed, I guess. I don't know anything about virtualbox so I can't say whether it might be a known issue or workaroundable or whatever. But if someone (especially Rob with Eee; or someone else with a different machine) can test a version with xorg.conf removed and virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 present, and replicate the phenomenon (gdm repeatedly launching a crashing x, just after the message "VirtualBox Additions disabled, not in a Virtual Machine") that would help greatly. I was chatting to some xorg people and their recommendation was to customise the arguments to the x server rather than providing an xorg.conf (esp since the latter will only apply to the first display). I'm going to try that out later. Not sure if purely using xfce4-power- manager will do all we need but yes let's try that too. -- xorg.conf and virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 conflict https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of puredyne team, which is the registrant for Puredyne Live. Status in Puredyne liveCD/DVD/USB/HD: Confirmed Bug description: Seems like the barebones /etc/X11/xorg.conf which I added, and virtualbox-ose-guest-x11, may conflict. Having them both causes a x11+gdm crash loop when booting a live-USB on my Eee 701, the last message showing being "VirtualBox Additions disabled, not in a Virtual Machine". IIRC, it was the xorg.conf which caused problems in aymeric's virtualbox and led to the addition of virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 in the first place. So maybe it's just a rubbish xorg.conf :( _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
