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issue:

When I launch my Ubuntu 20.04 VM with virtual box 6.1, everything goes as normal up until the retrieving the log in page. At this point I am instead presented with a blank and unresponsive (I can't type in it) terminal and nothing seems to happen.

I have ubuntu 20.04 LTS My host operating system is windows 10

Background:

My machine worked before- but after a while of disuse- rather than logging me out- it would take me to this frozen terminal instead. I tried fiddling around with display setting, but the situation, but this may have made things worse as I cannot reach the login page at all now. I have attached images on the blank terminal and some of my settings to help identify the issue, any help would be massively appreciated!

frozen terminal

display settings

storage settings

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  • Just a question of clarification. Ubuntu likes to show a login screen, then a screen covering the login, then black. Pressing Escape when this screen is active brings back login for me. Is this what you see, or is the machine frozen.
    – John
    Jun 10, 2020 at 15:34
  • I am afraid pressing escape doesn't work. In this case the login screen never showed up in the first place, it goes straight to this blank terminal.
    – Ganon
    Jun 10, 2020 at 15:37
  • Thanks for the update. I am not sure how to repair Linux machines like we do Windows machines. Do you have a backup of the VM that you can restore?
    – John
    Jun 10, 2020 at 15:42
  • @John, I haven't backed it up, it wouldn't be a disaster if I lose things but it would be a bit of a pain
    – Ganon
    Jun 10, 2020 at 16:02

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Try switching to a different tty by pressing ctrl+alt+F2, F3 or some other function key.

It may be that Xorg broke and you can't login anymore.

(too low reputation to comment so I'm answering)

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  • awsome, this enabled the terminal to become responsive - from here I made some updates in the command line and this seemed to fix things
    – Ganon
    Jun 10, 2020 at 17:30
  • Please mark my answer as accepted then, thank you! Jun 15, 2020 at 6:42

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