I set up a new Ubuntu 17.04 virtual machine in VMWare Workstation Pro 12.5.9 on my Windows 10 computer. I was able to set up and log into it a couple of times. All of a sudden, I cannot log into it any more, because of the following error:

[ 3.448236] sd 32:0:0:0 [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/sda1: clean, 183684/2293760 files, 2165375/9174528 blocks
[ 8.132673] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07:3: SMBus Host Controller not enabled!

After this, I still get the graphical login screen, but any attempt to log in results in the same message and reverts back to the login screen. I googled the SMBus Host Controller not enabled error, and saw a few blogs posts about how to get around this error, that ranged from modifying the VMWare guest's VMX file to logging in as root via Advanced boot options and adding one or two blacklist lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file. None of these suggested workarounds helped, either individually or as a combination. I am frustrated that an OOTB VM setup like this can go awry. I appreciate any suggestions to fix this problem!

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Try checking if your partition is not full. In my case I have created 30 GB of partition which was exhausted pretty quickly. Tried everything from this post:

Nothing have worked. I run Ubuntu from liveCD. Even though the partion showed 1.2 GB of free memory, after a while of tweaking and hair pulling I noticed it suddenly showed 0 free memory so I extended it to 40GB and voila everything worked again.

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