{"id":2499,"date":"2011-10-20T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T13:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2011-10-20T09:03:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T13:03:40","slug":"solved-updated-to-ubuntu-11-10-on-virtualbox-and-now-you-get-a-blank-screen-when-you-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/solved-updated-to-ubuntu-11-10-on-virtualbox-and-now-you-get-a-blank-screen-when-you-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"[SOLVED] Updated to Ubuntu 11.10 on VirtualBox and now you get a blank screen when you reboot?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you used the update manager to upgrade to the new Ubuntu 11.10 that came out a couple days ago and when you’re finished with the process, next time it boots you get a blank screen.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Do this:<\/p>\n

1. Switch to a terminal.<\/strong>
\n Press “Ctrl+Alt+F1” if you’re on Windows.
\n or
\n Press “Cmd + F1” or “Ctrl + Alt_option + F1” if you on MacOSX.<\/p>\n

You will now be on a text based terminal (TTY1), and you will see that your VM has booted fine, you just didn’t have a graphical environment, therefore the blank screen.<\/p>\n

2. Login in<\/strong> with your account on this text based terminal by entering your credentials.<\/p>\n

3. Install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils.<\/strong>
\n(Yes, I also had my virtual guest additions installed before so that I could have full screen resolution, but the problem seems to be related to this and now ubuntu has a package on their repos that you need.)<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils<\/strong> [enter]<\/p>\n

4. Reboot<\/strong>
\nsudo reboot<\/strong><\/p>\n

You’re done.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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