So Basically i’ve been using the Manjaro i3 Distro for some time now.
Im running it via Virtual Box on my main machine since it was the best possible option for me and everything works fine so far.
But every time i try to upgrade the system either via pacman -Syu or yay and reboot my system afterwards every application becomes unresponsive while being on screen.
Meaning that when i open a terminal i cant see what im typing. When i type something and open another terminal afterwards next to it, i can see what i wrote in the first terminal. But even when switching then then input is not being shown or visible. The same goes for Dmenu or anything else basically.
I’ve installed some single AUR Packages, which i know is not good to do but thats not the issue, since this problem also occurs if i upgrade a fresh install of the vm right after installation from the image.
I didnt know where best to put this in the forum but i guessed this couldnt be some good place.
If you have any questions on setup or terminal output let me know
Depending on your Host, the Virtual Box version and the VM settings (especially what Graphics Controller you set for it) the VM Manjaro install and update will provide the latest virtual-guest-utils so, you should first make sure you have the latest installed on your Host too.
This will give some ideas of better practices for updating in general
In other words:
refresh mirrors sudo pacman-mirrors -f5
update the system by using sudo pacman -Syyu
you can do all at once with both commands sudo pacman-mirrors -f5 && sudo pacman -Syyu
You are talking about the Manjaro guest, right? The phrase try to upgrade implies some measure of failure. In which way did the update not succeed?
That is likely an issue with the graphics of host system - to little graphics memory assigned to the guest vm - possibly - opacity may also create funny issues with the guest system window - perhaps the host system is running an earlier version of virtualbox where you Manjaro will always use the latest applicable guest utils.
the VM Manjaro install and update will provide the latest virtual-guest-utils so, you should first make sure you have the latest installed on your Host too.
Did that and made sure Manjaro also has the matching one to my VirtualBox Version
In other words:
refresh mirrors sudo pacman-mirrors -f5
update the system by using sudo pacman -Syyu
you can do all at once with both commands sudo pacman-mirrors -f5 && sudo pacman -Syyu
I also did all that followed by
pamac upgrade -a
Still the only thing that happens afterwards is my System being unresponsive again.
Depending on your Host, the Virtual Box version and the VM settings (especially what Graphics Controller you set for it)
Im Using the latest Virtual Box Version 7.0.4 and Graphics Controller is set to VMSVGA without 3D Acceleration cause i didnt figure out if i’d need it or not. The Graphics Memory is set to full 128mb.
Otherwise the VM has 16gigs of Ram and 6 CPU Cores set to it.
You are talking about the Manjaro guest, right?
Yes and the term implies the failure i mean that the system becomes unresponsive after the update which in my book wouldnt count as a successfull update even tho the upgrade completed without errors.
I also took some Screenshot of how the unresponsiveness is shown:
Your issue is most definetely graphics related - I just don’t see how.
There is possibly a slight discrepancy between your - I assume - up-to-date VirtualBox in Windows and the Manjaro kernel modules for stable branch. I cannot test as I only use virtualised Windows.
With this topic I feel a bit blindsided - so my suggestion is experimental at best
Start with creating a snapshot of your vm - while powered off. This makes it possible to roll back if you should feel so inclined.
Boot the vm and don’t login
Use the host key - usually Right Ctrl - and e.g. F4 to open real console (TTY).
Authenticate yourself
Switch your system to unstable and run a full sync
When done - reboot the vm - and see if this made a positive change.
If it did there was indeed a slight difference between Manjaro stable modules and Manjaro unstable modules.
My personal opinion - based on my experience - when using VirtualBox as either host or guest - using unstable branch prevent some hard to troubleshoot issues.
EDIT
Another thought - color schema
Just played around with i3 and I must say I am no fan of i3 or the configs provided - especially the the maia console theme.
Unresponsive - but it cannot be unresponsive when you can open a new terminal and input text - although you cannot see the text.
So excatly what does unresponsive mean? Is it just because you cannot see what you are writing?
There is a really strange section in your log - looks like filesystem error. If this is the case you may have other filesystem errors causing your system to malfunction
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I suggest you try creating a new vm and install a fresh i3 - update it an see if it creates similar issues.
EDIT - just tested a vbox vm with i3 - no issues - running on Manjaro host using Intel CPU/GPU
Unresponsive means that I can open applications like my terminal and dmenu. But after opening it there is no prompt in both of them displayed and the input I write is not visible for until I open e.g. a new terminal next to it. This happens on all Applications that kind of “render” their user visuals.
I will try the new VM later and post the results again
So as suggested i tried creating a new vm with a fresh i3.
I even downloaded a new fresh image for that one and recorded the whole vm installation and the update, which sadly again caused the said bug. But now in the Video i guess you can see what i mean. The Dmenu you see me open shortly also had no visible response to my input.
I have no idea as I am a complete foreigner with i3
picom is autostarted in line 276 in .i3/config
You can use $mod+t to kill picom and $mod+Ctrl+t to start it.
So when this works - perhaps somehting changed with picom - - after I began flirting with kwin on lxqt - I have moved to a trimmed down plasma on wayland.
- after I began flirting with kwin on lxqt - I have moved to a trimmed down plasma on wayland.
