Manjaro XFCE installed on VBox 7.0.6 sometimes hangs

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I have installed Manjaro (22.0.3, updated to newest) as a VM on VBox 7.0.6. Host is Win10. Most of the time Manjaro starts up as expected.
Sometimes (now, too) the start up hangs by showing a black screen with 3 flashing dots and “manjaro” at the bottom.
i can ACPI-Shutdown.
Sometimes a new start up works fine. Sometimes not. Currently, hanging is reproducible.

In the past I deleted the VM and worked with an older backup of the VM until it happens again. But I loose some data in that case.

Is there any way to locate the reason for this behavior?

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Too many unknown variables:

  • no hardware info at all
  • Win10 host - the VM didn’t change and it worked, then it didn’t - would prompt me to look at the host and what it is doing
  • memory settings of the VM - is there enough RAM allocated - or too much so the host doesn’t have enough
  • logs of the VM - you can boot it into a non graphical mode if the normal one doesn’t work
    then investigate why the guest is having problems and what seems to be the reason
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It may be the plymouth splash causing the issues - the combination of firmware splash and plymouth - I think you may find a similar issue using the search function.

Yes - here it is - After update, manjaro vm does not boot to gui reliably - #8 by linux-aarhus

When you have the system started succesfully open a terminal and edit

  1. /etc/default/grub → remove splash → save the file
  2. /etc/mkinitcpio → hooks section - remove plymouth → save the file

Rebuild grub

sudo update-grub -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Rebuild init

sudo mkinitcpio -P

Reboot

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Without any change and after 6 restarts in about 2 days Manjaro started as expected. Without any change, even not to the Win10 host (I worked on a different hardware these days.).

However, I applied the suggested changes to grub and hope, I will never see this problem again.
Thanks linux-aarhus .