VirtualBox - no screen refresh

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

On Thu, July 23, 2009 6:36 pm, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
>> Bernhard, can you provide an idea how to dig non-working refresh for
>> me ?
>>
>> It works fine on virtualbox5 and virtualbox6 archives, but when I've
>> upgraded some time ago using port from tree it (screen refresh) does not
>> work for me any more.
>
> The stacktrace you posted at the beginning of the thread looks like a
> locking problem and i have already talked to Alexander Eichner about that
> but he hasn't seen that problem yet and first needs to figure out what is
> going wrong there.
>
> Sorry, but i guess i can't help you much more than that.
>
> Stacktrace is no relevant any more, virtualbox does not crash for me.
> Everything works, but console window is black on boot and during VM work.
>
> I have only two exceptions -
>       * after XP load's some icons shown (see vm-desktop.png shot)
>       * at any time if I try to close machine window close dialog
>         pop-ups and main window with right picture grayed
>         (vm-close-dialog.png shot). I can repeat that to get actual
>         picture.
>
> I am pretty sure that problem is not with in-VM software, because BIOS
> information is not displayed also.

Could you try to set the environment variable XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
before you start VirtualBox? The screenshots look like that could be the
issue.

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Bernhard Fröhlich
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