Kubuntu 22.04 LTS Black Screen Panic on fresh install

[VisualGPS]

Hello Group,

A fresh install of Kubuntu 22.04 LTS will start and you can log in. However, when you try to open a window, konsole in this case, the screen goes black and sometimes it will show a panic screen. Screenshot attached. 

This event occurs on Ubuntu when Kubuntu desktop is installed as well., In this case, you can run the standard Ubuntu desktop.

The host is windows 11, running VMWare Workstation 17

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

[mcd177]

I have stopped in to report the same issue.

I've even went so far as to reinstall another instance kbuntu 22.04.02 in vmware player 17.0.2 build-21581411 running on windows 11.

Both have very similar issues. A black screen once logged in.

The fresh install.  At least I can get a terminal open with some stability. However, as soon as I try to run an application like fire fox or even display settings.  The vm goes black most of the time.  I can interact with it taking hold of the mouse only. Other wise it responses to no commands.  A fresh install even.

The older installed system would boot to the log in screen.  But would black screen as soon as it was logged it.  There is a glimmer of code some times as in a crash it might suggest. I how ever lack the skills and time to decipher it a the moment.

Perhaps I could post some log files. For the greater good. perhaps if some one had an suggestions of what info to grab to try gleaning some information on this peculiarity. Seems a trouble some issue. Any one else have this issue ? 

I also reinstalled my nvidia graphics drive and vmware player itself. 

I as well receive the same error in the terminal.

[louyo]

Obvious question: Did you try turning off Accelerate 3d?

Maybe the vmware log holds some info.

[VisualGPS]

Thanks for that suggestion. Disabling the 3D Acceleration does make a difference and works. It's our workaround for now. I started to ping this group knowing that the VMWare video drivers began to fail after some Linux update. I still see some reverse finger-pointing between the plasma dev and VMWare video drivers.

[mcd177]

I as well concur.  Removing the accelerated 3d solved my issue as well.  Good suggestion. Thank you.

There was a full on crash dump generated in each kbuntu instance.

I received this from vmware.log file as well .

2023-06-11T03:18:07.053Z Cr(01) vmx PANIC: VERIFY bora\vmx\main\hostWin32.c:559

And then a dump proceeded.

[Chavell384]

for me the solution was to increase the vm graphics memory from 4MB(default) to e.g. 16MB. I didn't tested every variation like 8 or 12MB...