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I have a VirtualBox VM running xubuntu. Recently, shortly after I start it up, the mouse cursor disappears and it stops responding to keyboard input. It's getting through my .xsession OK, so I'm not sure where the failure is. I can ssh into the VM without problems, but cannot start X applications that way.
I would welcome any suggestions about how to diagnose and/or fix this.
The problems began after I changed the number of displays attached to the VM from 4 to 1, and played around with arandr a bit. I don't know whether that's related.
Below is my .xsession-errors, in case it's helpful:
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XAUTHORITY=/home/ubuntu/.Xauthority
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHELL=/bin/bash
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu:/etc/xdg
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting CLUTTER_BACKEND=x11
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LANGUAGE=en_US
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting MANDATORY_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/xubuntu.mandatory.path
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DOTNET_ROOT=/home/ubuntu/.dotnet
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting BOOGIE_EXE=/home/ubuntu/.dotnet/tools/boogie
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DESKTOP_SESSION=xubuntu
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PWD=/home/ubuntu
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=xubuntu
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LOGNAME=ubuntu
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XAUTHORITY=/home/ubuntu/.Xauthority
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm-data/ubuntu
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GDM_LANG=en_US
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting HOME=/home/ubuntu
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DEFAULTS_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/xubuntu.default.path
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting Z3_EXE=/home/ubuntu/bin/z3
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting USER=ubuntu
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHLVL=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting CVC5_EXE=/home/ubuntu/bin/cvc5
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/xubuntu:/usr/share/xfce4:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PATH=/home/ubuntu/.dotnet/tools:/home/ubuntu/bin:/home/ubuntu/.cargo/bin:/home/ubuntu/.local/bin:/home/ubuntu/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GDMSESSION=xubuntu
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting _=/usr/bin/dbus-update-activation-environment
/usr/bin/iceauth: creating new authority file /run/user/1000/ICEauthority
** Message: 12:00:33.385: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: No such file or directory
(xfwm4:2470): xfwm4-WARNING **: 12:00:34.218: Unsupported GL renderer (llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits)).
** (wrapper-2.0:2857): WARNING **: 12:00:34.576: No outputs have backlight property
(wrapper-2.0:2855): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:00:34.582: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkToggleButton to a container of type XfcePanelPlugin, but the widget is already inside a container of type XfcePanelPlugin, please remove the widget from its existing container first.
(wrapper-2.0:2855): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:00:34.605: Negative content width -3 (allocation 1, extents 2x2) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkToggleButton)
(wrapper-2.0:2853): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:00:34.609: Negative content width -3 (allocation 1, extents 2x2) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkToggleButton)
vmware-user: could not open /proc/fs/vmblock/dev
** (xfdesktop:2850): WARNING **: 12:00:34.619: Thumbnailer failed calling GetFlavors
** (xfce4-power-manager:2890): WARNING **: 12:00:34.625: Failed to get name owner: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.PowerManagement': no such name
** (xfce4-power-manager:2890): WARNING **: 12:00:34.626: Failed to get name owner: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.xfce.PowerManager': no such name
(wrapper-2.0:2857): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:00:34.628: Negative content width -3 (allocation 1, extents 2x2) while allocating gadget (node button, owner PowerManagerButton)
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2916): GLib-CRITICAL **: 12:00:34.634: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2916): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: 12:00:34.634: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
(process:2948): ayatana-indicator-application-service-WARNING **: 12:00:34.647: Unable to get watcher name 'org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher'
** (xfce4-screensaver:2933): WARNING **: 12:00:34.678: screensaver already running in this session
(xfce4-power-manager:2890): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 12:00:34.693: ../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2613: signal 'Changed' is invalid for instance '0x56366e895160' of type 'GDBusProxy'
(wrapper-2.0:2858): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:00:34.721: Negative content width -3 (allocation 1, extents 2x2) while allocating gadget (node button, owner PulseaudioButton)
(xfce4-power-manager:2890): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: 12:00:34.740: could not map keysym 1008ffa8 to keycode
** (xfce4-power-manager:2890): WARNING **: 12:00:34.752: No outputs have backlight property
** (xiccd:2968): WARNING **: 12:00:34.754: EDID is empty
** (xiccd:2968): WARNING **: 12:00:34.755: EDID is empty
(xfce4-power-manager:2890): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: 12:00:34.755: Failed to get keyboard max brightness level : GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/UPower/KbdBacklight”
** (xiccd:2968): WARNING **: 12:00:34.755: EDID is empty
** (xiccd:2968): WARNING **: 12:00:36.925: EDID is empty
** (xiccd:2968): WARNING **: 12:00:36.925: EDID is empty
** (xiccd:2968): WARNING **: 12:00:36.926: EDID is empty
** (xiccd:2968): WARNING **: 12:00:36.929: EDID is empty
** (xiccd:2968): WARNING **: 12:00:36.929: EDID is empty
** (xiccd:2968): WARNING **: 12:00:36.929: EDID is empty
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I would look at the host system and the log files there first. You could also create another xubuntu VM to see if you can replicate the issue.
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