David,

On Friday 13 March 2009, David Baron wrote:
> On a Debian Sid/KDE4.2-experimental system, if vbox does not give me some
> explicit error and tries to start a VM, I get a black screen and no more. I
> can escape, either within the desktop or go to a console and kill it. In
> any event vbox did not run the VM correctly.

I assume you tried to start a VM from the GUI? What happens if you
start the VM with

  VirtualBox -startvm VM_NAME

? And what happens if you start the VM with

  VirtualBox -startvm VM_NAME -rmode image

?

> I tried this with (duely updated) duely updated vm, CD-image for reactos
> (usely will not work) and a vboxmanager-created vmdk of win98 partition
> which should. SInce I can get stuck, I did not try any of the others I had.
>
> Even worse, after aborting the vbox application, I tried to read a document
> using Okular (PDF reader) and the same thing happened!
>
> Once escaped, the window has whole or partial pinkish boarders. I have to
> restart X.

Sounds like a problem with either your X server or your video driver.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems    http://www.sun.com/

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