[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to downgrade virtualbox from latest version
Harry Putnam
reader at newsguy.com
Thu Nov 19 13:07:44 UTC 2020
Setup: running latest updates of OI/hipster on;
HDW: HP wx8600 2x XEON 5600
psrinfo -vp
The physical processor has 4 virtual processors (0 2 4 6)
x86 (GenuineIntel 1067A family 6 model 23 step 10 clock 3333 MHz)
Intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz
uname -a
SunOS 2x 5.11 illumos-f0b6369dcf i86pc i386 i86pc
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I'm having problems with virtualbox running on above hardware since a
recent upgrade that put me at version:
system/virtualbox 6.1.16-2020.0.1.1
During bootup I see about only 2/3 of character space of the
lines. The bottom 1/3 is gone.
Keyboard does'nt function at all after logging in.
During login when pressing keys it only leaves a tiny mark that looks
something like an inverted dash followed closely by an
apostrophe. Only at about 1/5 size, and high on what would be the text
line.
No normal letters appear as I press keys to login, only the tiny thing
described above. But if I type the uid and password with the right
keys, even though they do not appear in the txt boxes, I can still
login.
Once logged in keyboard does not make any kind of marks in xterm or
any other tools that require text input.
But again I can run commands if I'm careful about getting the keys
right. Once I press `enter' the command runs and the keys typed then
appear on the xterm.
This all started following an update of openindiana-2020:11:02. A few
days later really since I didn't reboot right away.
Updated again openindiana-2020:11:17 but the problems persist.
Do we maintain any of the older versions of virtualbox somewhere that
I can install with pkg command?
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