2012/5/2 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 00:38 +0800, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote: >> 2012/4/5 Joshua Poehls <joshua@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > Doh. I think that was it. Thank you... >> > >> > -- >> > Joshua Poehls >> > >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Jesse Juhani Jaara <jesse.jaara@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: >> > >> >> to, 2012-04-05 kello 07:41 -0500, Joshua Poehls kirjoitti: >> >> > I started installing Arch in VirtualBox this morning but twice now the >> >> > screen goes black at some point during (or right after) the package >> >> > download step and never comes back. >> >> Well Linux in general has a "powersaving" or "screensaving" feature >> >> don't know the exact meaning/use of it, but anyway in console, if you >> >> don't touch the keyboard for a while the screen will blank itself. >> >> Pressing any key will wake it up again. Don't know if this is the thing >> >> you are experiencing... >> >> >> I have similar problmes here. After upgrade to the newest linux >> kernel, the virtualbox became unresponsed, and output a screen of >> dignostic informations. >> >> Anyone knows what happend? > > I neither read the complete thread nor do I know what to do, but I > remember that there was an issue regarding to an upgrade of X, when > using Arch in VBox. Perhaps there's a solution or at least an > explanation somewhere in the mailing list archive end 2011 or during > 2012. Windoof still is fine in my VBox running on Arch ;D. > > - Ralf > In my situation, any massive disk operations would cause the same result. The ssh console is dead and unresponsed, plenty of diagnostic information output to tty1, and I do not have an X installed on my vbox. Here is my last system upgrade information. [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded autoconf (2.68-2 -> 2.69-1) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded automake (1.11.3-1 -> 1.12-1) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded bash-completion (1.3-3 -> 1.99-2) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded binutils (2.22-4 -> 2.22-6) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded device-mapper (2.02.90-1 -> 2.02.95-2) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded popt (1.16-4 -> 1.16-5) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded cryptsetup (1.4.1-1 -> 1.4.1-3) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded dhcpcd (5.5.4-1 -> 5.5.6-1) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded filesystem (2012.2-2 -> 2012.2-4) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded fakeroot (1.18.2-1 -> 1.18.3-1) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded freetype2 (2.4.9-1 -> 2.4.9-2) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded fuse (2.8.7-1 -> 2.9.0-1) [2012-05-01 22:04] upgraded ppl (0.12-1 -> 0.12.1-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded gcc (4.6.3-1 -> 4.7.0-5) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded git (1.7.9.4-1 -> 1.7.10-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded grep (2.11-2 -> 2.12-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded iproute2 (3.2.0-2 -> 3.3.0-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded initscripts (2012.02.1-1 -> 2012.03.2-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded kbproto (1.0.5-2 -> 1.0.6-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded keyutils (1.5.5-1 -> 1.5.5-2) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded krb5 (1.9.2-2 -> 1.10.1-2) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded libevent (2.0.17-1 -> 2.0.18-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded libltdl (2.4.2-4 -> 2.4.2-5) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded libmysqlclient (5.5.21-1 -> 5.5.23-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded libpng (1.5.9-1 -> 1.5.10-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded libtool (2.4.2-4 -> 2.4.2-5) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded xproto (7.0.22-1 -> 7.0.23-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded libx11 (1.4.99.1-1 -> 1.4.99.901-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded libxt (1.1.2-2 -> 1.1.3-1) [2012-05-01 22:05] upgraded mkinitcpio (0.8.4-1 -> 0.8.7-2) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded linux (3.2.9-1 -> 3.3.4-1) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded lvm2 (2.02.90-1 -> 2.02.95-2) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded man-pages (3.37-1 -> 3.39-1) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded mdadm (3.2.3-1 -> 3.2.3-2) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded mysql-clients (5.5.21-1 -> 5.5.23-1) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded mysql (5.5.21-1 -> 5.5.23-1) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded rpcbind (0.2.0-6 -> 0.2.0-8) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded nfs-utils (1.2.5-2 -> 1.2.5-4) [2012-05-01 22:07] installed dnssec-anchors (20120422-1) [2012-05-01 22:07] installed ldns (1.6.12-2) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded openssh (5.9p1-5 -> 6.0p1-2) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded pcmciautils (018-1 -> 018-4) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded php (5.3.10-4 -> 5.3.11-1) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded php-apache (5.3.10-4 -> 5.3.11-1) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded php-gd (5.3.10-4 -> 5.3.11-1) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded php-mcrypt (5.3.10-4 -> 5.3.11-1) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded php-pear (5.3.10-4 -> 5.3.11-1) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded phpmyadmin (3.4.10.1-1 -> 3.5.0-1) [2012-05-01 22:07] upgraded procps (3.2.8-4 -> 3.2.8-5) [2012-05-01 22:08] upgraded psmisc (22.15-1 -> 22.16-1) [2012-05-01 22:08] upgraded sshfs (2.3-2 -> 2.4-1) [2012-05-01 22:08] upgraded syslog-ng (3.3.4-2 -> 3.3.4-5) [2012-05-01 22:08] upgraded vim-runtime (7.3.434-1 -> 7.3.495-3) [2012-05-01 22:08] upgraded vim (7.3.434-1 -> 7.3.495-3) [2012-05-01 22:08] upgraded virtualbox-archlinux-modules (4.1.10-1 -> 4.1.14-2) [2012-05-01 22:08] upgraded virtualbox-archlinux-additions (4.1.10-1 -> 4.1.14-2) [2012-05-01 22:08] upgraded xcb-proto (1.7-2 -> 1.7.1-1) [2012-05-01 22:08] upgraded xdebug (2.1.3-2 -> 2.1.4-1) [2012-05-01 22:08] upgraded xextproto (7.2.0-2 -> 7.2.1-1) [2012-05-01 22:08] upgraded xfsprogs (3.1.7-1 -> 3.1.8-1) Any help?