[SOLVED] black screen on virtualbox after installation

OneWay · January 05, 2014, 12:56:19 AM

i installed 3.2 LXDE 32-bit and 64-bit and also i installed 3.2 Mate 64-bit then rebooted a virtual machine and i see the grub menu then i get a black screen. I changed settings in virtualbox and nothing helped. im really puzzled by this issue. am i missing something?

pavroo · January 05, 2014, 01:37:16 AM

I think it's a problem with the host system. Are you running VirtualBox on Linux or other system? What is it?

OneWay · January 05, 2014, 01:44:56 AM

host system is windows 7 64-bit

pavroo · January 05, 2014, 02:49:44 AM

There are two things.

1. I don't use MS system, sorry, but... Find VBox.log file in your home folder. Place it somewhere in the network and place a download link to it in next post so I'll download and have a look into the file.

2. You can try to find a solution on Debian, Windows and Virtualbox forums too:

https://www.google.pl/#q=black+screen+debian+on+virtualbox+windows+7+host

OneWay · January 05, 2014, 04:00:31 AM

http://ge.tt/6e2cMJC1/v/0?c

I googled everywhere and couldnt find any solution thats why i joined this forum and posted my issue. when i run sudo commands, it says "unable to resolve host sparky linux 3.2 LXDE 32--bit

pavroo · January 05, 2014, 02:45:34 PM

You can not use sudo command after installation. Sparky uses 'su' to get the root access.

OneWay · January 05, 2014, 10:16:05 PM

i resolved it. what happened is that i used spaces for hostname. the problem is that i was never warned not to use any spaces

pavroo · January 05, 2014, 10:50:53 PM

That's great. I didn't even think about that.

Somewhat Reticent · January 06, 2014, 01:24:06 AM

There was a similar bug that made using "-" just as bad.