🐞 Fixing the OpenIPMI Glitch on Ubuntu VM (VirtualBox)
🚨 The Problem
So I was on my own oh, just trying to use my Ubuntu happily oh when I booted it up and there was this weird glitch where my cursor turned into a black square and the desktop started flickering, creating a "double desktop" effect for a split second. It kept on happening repeatedly.
Initially I thought it was just a random glitch soo I just ignored it, but then I was like hold up...I'm supposed to be a Linux power-user👀 if I want my chances of landing a job or internship to be higher. So I decided to tackle my demons.
🛠 Debugging the Issue
...so I had a guess... I shutdown my vm and btw I'm using VBox cos why not. Then I increased the allocated video memory and restarted ubuntu
It gave me this false glimpse of hope when I logged in when it didnt glitch, but of course it can't be that easy with Linux😭, it got back to its glitching.
It was at that point I remembered I had learned about log files recently and I should try to inspect the logs and see what I find since I was really going into it blindly...
So I kindov figured out that it was a problem that occurred while the vm was booting soo I went all sherlock on it...
🔎Step 1: Inspecting the boot logs
cd /var/log
sudo cat boot.log
found this log about openipmi failing during boot,
I did a quick search on the openipmi service cos I didnt know what the heck it was, found out it's a background service for managing physical server hardware remotely using IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) and log story short, it isn't needed for VMs and it could cause some conflicts, soo I proceeded to remove it.
Step 2: Solving the problem
So I removed it and it's dependencies and rebooted ubuntu
sudo apt purge openipmi ipmitool -y && sudo apt autoremove -y
sudo reboot
Conclusion
Every thing seems to be working perfectly since then, no black square cursors and glitchy desktops. Hopefully this fix lasts, fingers crossed🤞
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