X server does not start after update in Virtualbox guest

Just updated a guest machine running Manjaro wit pacman -Syu.

Now lightdm.service does not start anymore.
In Xorg.0.log you see:

[ 931.304] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so
[ 931.304] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so: libxatracker.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[ 931.304] (EE) Failed to load module “vmware” (loader failed, 0)
[ 931.304] (EE) No drivers available.

vmware ???
Why does the system try to load a vmware driver?
This is a Virtualbox Guest!

Maybe this is related to:

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xf86-video-vmware/-/issues/3#note_276766

A post was split to a new topic: Same problem here

This seems to be indeed an issue of Mesa 25.1
XA is no longer built by default in Mesa 25.1 …

I downgraded to Mesa 1:24.3.4-1and had to re-install xf86-video-vmware.
After that another problem occurred:

[   318.192] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so: libLLVM.so.19.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[   318.192] (EE) Failed to load module "vmware" (loader failed, 0)
[   318.192] (EE) No drivers available.

Hmmm …

pacman -F libLLVM.so.19.1
extra/llvm19-libs 19.1.7-1
    usr/lib/libLLVM.so.19.1
    usr/lib/llvm19/lib/libLLVM.so.19.1

pacman -S llvm19-libs

… and - surprise - lightdm is working again …Preformatted text

See this comment Broken by upstream mesa deprecation (gallium-xa) (#3) · Issues · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / xf86-video-vmware · GitLab

@rapkin

There is a topic pointing back to this where an old configuration file was causing issues. The topic is linked at the bottom of your original topic.

Please check if your guest system contains a file (or something similar)

/etc/X11/mhwd.d/vmware.conf

This file is symlinked into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d - most likely as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/manjaro.conf

Please provide the content of said file - it could be referencing the vmware driver - possibly creating a conflict causing the xorg server to fail.