Originally Posted by gonzas

Originally Posted by dr.s View Post
I use a virtualbox guest vm that I clone and copy to a desktop and a laptop as needed (for experimentation, testing stuff etc.)
The guest runs Slackware 14.0 with the 3.2.29 stock kernel, upgrading to 3.2.45 was straightforward as usual but launching X within the guest brought up a frozen black screen with a blinking cursor at the top left corner. I rebooted the guest and tried again after uninstalling/reinstalling the guest additions but that didn't help.

Aside from reverting to 3.2.29, found only these 2 workarounds:
-remove the guest additions, X starts working again (issue re-occurs if I reinstall the additions)
-upgrade to 3.8.13, this apparently resolves everything with no issues so far, guest + X + additions working smoothly.



I upgraded to the 3rd kernel build and the problem remains.