In about 50 - 75% of the cases I experience a black screen after logging in in an X session on an Ubuntu 14.10 guest (64-bit) on a Windows 7 64-bit host using VMware Workstation 11.1.0. Resetting the virtual machine a couple of times helps.
I am using the latest hardware version and VMWare tools.
I can, however, ssh to the machine while the console view is unusable, and retrieve the following from Xorg.0.log:
(EE) [mi] EQ overflowing. Additional events will be discarded until existing events are processed.
(EE)
(EE) Backtrace:
(EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x56) [0x7f8486b3ff76]
(EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (mieqEnqueue+0x24b) [0x7f8486b210fb]
(EE) 2: /usr/bin/X (QueuePointerEvents+0x52) [0x7f84869f7f22]
(EE) 3: /usr/bin/X (xf86PostMotionEvent+0xd6) [0x7f8486a2f026]
(EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.so (0x7f847a07c000+0x1e75) [0x7f847a07de75]
(EE) 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.so (0x7f847a07c000+0x189f) [0x7f847a07d89f]
(EE) 6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.so (0x7f847a07c000+0x195c) [0x7f847a07d95c]
(EE) 7: /usr/bin/X (0x7f8486989000+0x95968) [0x7f8486a1e968]
(EE) 8: /usr/bin/X (0x7f8486989000+0xbfff9) [0x7f8486a48ff9]
(EE) 9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7f84846bc000+0x36eb0) [0x7f84846f2eb0]
(EE) 10: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (ioctl+0x7) [0x7f84847acfa7]
(EE) 11: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2 (drmIoctl+0x28) [0x7f8485a95388]
(EE) 12: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2 (drmModeDirtyFB+0x2e) [0x7f8485a98a6e]
(EE) 13: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so (0x7f8480c10000+0xea15) [0x7f8480c1ea15]
(EE) 14: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so (0x7f8480c10000+0xff58) [0x7f8480c1ff58]
(EE) 15: /usr/bin/X (BlockHandler+0x4a) [0x7f84869e509a]
(EE) 16: /usr/bin/X (WaitForSomething+0x13c) [0x7f8486b3d29c]
(EE) 17: /usr/bin/X (0x7f8486989000+0x57311) [0x7f84869e0311]
(EE) 18: /usr/bin/X (0x7f8486989000+0x5b706) [0x7f84869e4706]
(EE) 19: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f84846ddec5]
(EE) 20: /usr/bin/X (0x7f8486989000+0x45a8e) [0x7f84869cea8e]
I am looking for suggestions for further investigations and perhaps hints for a solution to this problem.