[SOLVED] VE 8.0 / VM - Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop Does Not Get Past Login

wfcollins

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I have created many different Linux VMs, never had issues. Just installed Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop and I enter the password. The prompt goes away for a few seconds and reappears with no error message. 23.04 works fine. The 23.10 image is good as I checked it and I installed it on a physical laptop. I downloaded again just to be sure. I have seen where others have successfully installed it.

Any ideas?
 
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OK, I searched for hours and finally fixed this. I changed the display type to VMWare. It is interesting that 23.04 is fine with the default display and 23.10 is not?
 
It seems like this is a problem that develops over time with newer versions of Ubuntu.
I was running 24.04 for months and recently started having this issue. When this is happening you can't get into the console, and also the VM doesn't actually log into Ubuntu on its own at all, so anything that does auto-login is dead in the water.

Can confirm that changing to a "VMware compatible" display fixed the problem. Is this a bug of some kind in the default display code?