Sorry, I should have extracted the solution and made it big and bold (I forgot your system just got downgraded at an Installfest, and you are PTSD stuck!)
This will fix her:
Reinstall Virtualbox Guest Additions from the terminal:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1271263&seqNum=3
Install VirtualBox as described Part 1 and Part 2
of "Sun VirtualBox (xVM): A Virtualization Environment for Linux"
article.
Of course, if you had Xterm you could just do:
Next: Virtualbox Console > Devices > Install Guest Additions
There is a script somewhere hereabouts:
cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_2.0.6_39755 [directory name will vary with the version]
sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run [or -x64 if running a 64-bit guest]
Other stuff probably not related:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ
Just FYI, the problem is that you upgraded to a new kernel, so you had to recompile or reinstall your graphic drivers .
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From:
lisakachold@obnosis.com
To:
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: RE: How to recover X display?
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:23:26 +0000
Updates between versions are sometimes a lottery!
Let's look at how we must package a problem for the PLUG: We follow these steps (dumping into email):
1) What is it (versions, etc)?
2) What is she whining about (Linux like any good partner will tell you very clearly what is the issue)?
[Ignore my installation references for Ubuntu's Virtualbox (they are just info); but possibly an update to the ABI module or v41 module were done during the installation?]
Check the file creation date for your Grub at /here/boot/grub/menu.lst
Check to verify what she is currently booting there - look for backup files and diff.
Discussion:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=54523.0
We might logically research the exact Xorg errors for these, spoze?
3) Research our error for known solutions:
module ABI major version (1) doesn't match server's version (2)
failed to load module "v41" (module requirement mismatch,0)
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-313691.html
PCLinuxOs virtualbox module issues
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=611644
4) The Zen of Troubleshooting, "The error is the problem"
Looks like you have a kernel module mismatch grasshopper.
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> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:04:29 -0700
> Subject: Re: How to recover X display?
> From: joe@actionline.com
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
> Thanks very much Lisa. Following is what I've discovered so far:
>
> On 3/22/09, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:
> > Quick Resurrection -- [drop info from these steps w reply to organize the issue]
> >
> > 1) Verify bootloader GRUB -- What does your grub.conf look like?
> > Compare old and new, specifically looking at kernel boot options.
> > What are you booting into?
>
> There is no grub.conf. In /boot/grub found menu.lst dated Apr 6, 2007
> (last date chgd)
> It boots to /boot/vmlinuz VGA=788 (this is the one that locks up)
> Also to /boot/vmlinuz without VGA-788 and this works, opens to # command line
> Also to /boot vmlinuz "failsafe"
> Also to win.xp which still works
> All three /voot/vmlinuz boot to kernel.h-2.6.18.6 dated Feb 23, 2007
>
> > 2) Verify X -- Boot to rescue mode and see what your /etc/X11/xorg.conf says.
> > There would have been an old xorg.conf that was copied to backup.
>
> xorg.conf and xorg.conf.old are both dated Apr 6, 2007
> (Apparently no change from when everything was working.)
> diff showed "old" had "DPMS" "false" and current "DPMS" (no false)
> 'diff' also showed the following line identical in both old and new:
> #DontZoom # disable <CTRL><ALT><KP_+><KP_-> (resolution switching)
>
> > Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues.
>
> Scrolling through the entire log file showed only two items flagged (EE):
> module ABI major version (1) doesn't match server's version (2)
> failed to load module "v41" (module requirement mismatch,0)
>
> > Run Xconfigurator after copying current xorg.conf to KNOWNBACKUP.
>
> Found no 'Xconfigurtor' nor 'xconfig' on the system.
>
> > Or just copy the current file to backup and move the old over.
>
> The current and 'old' are the same except as noted above.
>
> > You might want to add vboxdrv to the list of modules in /etc/modules to be
> > loaded automatically at startup in.
>
> I did this and rebooted, but still get the message:
> "cannot connect to X server"
>
> > Virtualbox
> > apt-get install virtualbox-ose
>
> I don't have 'apt-get' so don't know where to go from here. :(
>
> > virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-amd64 virtualbox-ose-source
> > apt-get install module-assistant
> > module-assistant prepare virtualbox-ose
> > module-assistant auto-install virtualbox-ose
> > modprove vboxdrv
> > adduser myusername vboxusers
>
> We did add my user name to vbox users yesterday.
> The system was working (after installing virtualbox)
> until we rebooted, then the current problem began.
> I can still boot the system into the non-fb (sp?) second
> grub boot option and can switch among the terminals,
> except F7 has a blank screen with solid cursor upper left.
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