Hello Simon, On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:33:51 +0100 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: reassign -1 virtualbox-guest-dkms 5.2.12-dfsg-3 > Control: affects -1 gnome-shell > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 at 09:26:42 +0000, GHANNADZADEH Saman wrote: > > Jun 18 10:22:26 debian org.gnome.Shell.desktop[789]: OpenGL Warning: > > vboxCall failed with VBox status code VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW > > > > You are also correct that gnome-shell is not crashing, but instead > > doesn't render anything. I can see and control the mouse cursor. > > > > This is with the latest version of the VirtualBox (5.2.12r122591). I > > have tried this with both the virtual CD image from VirtualBox itself, > > and from the virtualbox-guest-dkms package (5.2.12-dfsg-3 from sid, as > > the testing version has a bug that prevents the kernel module from being > > compiled). I have also tried this with versions 4.16.0-2 and 4.15.0-3 > > of the kernel. I get the above OpenGL warning in all cases. > > > > If I disable 3D acceleration in VirtualBox and uninstall all > > VirtualBox-related guest additions, this problem goes away and GNOME > > loads as normal (but with a tiny resolution and without multi-monitor > > support out of the box). > > I think this is probably a VirtualBox bug (either in the > virtualbox-guest-dkms kernel module, some user-space driver component, > or the host side), which gnome-shell is unlikely to be able to fix. > > My employer uses VirtualBox for some projects and we've never had good > experiences with its 3D acceleration: our standard advice is to leave it > switched off. >
In the last two years loots of effort has been put into this 3d acceleration issue, I hope gnome-shell works now! (at least works in my testing) G.
