virtualbox - git corrupted on ubuntu vbox, power failure with proper shutdown
2014-07
mattheew
i use git on ubuntu headless server on virtualbox on my laptop. when i shut down the pc, i don't bother shutting down the virtualbox, i just shutdown the pc. it never was a problem. it was fine since yesterday, when the power is gone. laptop had 2 hours remaining so i used it to the last minute, then i closed my ssh session, then closed the laptop. it properly closed, though power was out. morning, when i opened the laptop again, git was corrupted. why did this happen?
Macha
For the last month, when starting up or shutting down my laptop under Linux, I would get graphical corruption. Startup has an colour inverted, grainy rendition of what should be displayed while shutdown has a red background with all the text replaced by grey rectangles.
At the very least this affects Fedora, Ubuntu and Xubuntu. Windows is not affected. Outside of startup/shutdown the system is fine.
Should I be worrying about this?
Iain
I get flickering on startup sometimes. I haven't had any data loss or anything like that.
This fix from the Ubuntu Forums might work for you.
zzeroo
Try the nomodeset kernel parameter. In my case it solves the flicker and graphic madness ;)
Here my complete grub line for the kernel:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-10-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg-lucid ro quiet splash nomodeset