Bug 255736

Summary: KDE Plasma stuck on black screen with virtualbox-ose-addtions modules loaded
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: kam <kamalamalamalam>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-kde (group) <kde>
Status: Closed Not A Bug    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: arrowd, grahamperrin, jwb
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: amd64   
OS: Any   

Description kam 2021-05-09 21:25:00 UTC 
I'm running FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE in VirtualBox with virtualbox-ose-additions-6.1.18_1 and virtualbox-ose-kmod6.1.18_1 and whenever I start Plasma, ether through sddm or xinit, it stays stuck on the loading screen. When I disable vboxguest and vboxservice then Plasma is able to start.
Comment 1 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-05-11 17:31:32 UTC 
If you have not already done so: 

1. stop the guest
2. set the guest to use VBoxSVGA
Comment 2 Jason W. Bacon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-05-15 16:25:30 UTC 
See if it works with guest additions for a user who is not a member of wheel.
If so, then it's probably the same issue described here:

https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/issues/8
Comment 3 kam 2021-05-17 12:27:05 UTC 
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #1)
this was the issue, switching graphics controllers worked perfectly
Comment 4 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-05-17 21:56:58 UTC 
(In reply to kam from comment #3)

Thank you for confirming. 

Related: bug 254266 comment 7 – I'm to edit the package message, maybe later this week. For fewer users of emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions to have the pitfalls of VMSVGA …
Comment 5 Gleb Popov freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-09-17 16:04:28 UTC 
Closing this as "Not a bug", meaning that this is not "our" (kde@) bug. Since the problem with VMSVGA vs VBoxSVGA is well known, there is no point to keep this bug open.
Comment 6 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-10-10 10:21:07 UTC 
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/115>

> Update package descriptions and messages for some VirtualBox ports

> … Draft; comments and corrections are invited. Thank you.