VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#3136 closed defect (fixed)

VBoxSVC consumes 100% CPU if dbus is missing -> fixed in SVN

Reported by: Costin Grigoras Owned by:
Component: host support Version: VirtualBox 2.1.2
Keywords: VBoxSVC 100% CPU dbus missing Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: Linux

Description

On a Ubuntu 8.10 Server 64bit installation, without dbus package installed, VBoxSVC consumes 100% cpu trying to talk to the dbus daemon.

The Ubuntu package for VirtualBox should have dbus as dependency or at least as recommended if this behavior is expected.

Change History (8)

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Component: otherhost support
Guest type: Linuxother

Confirmed. This is a bug.

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

priority: majorcritical

comment:3 by Michael Thayer, 15 years ago

Summary: VBoxSVC consumes 100% CPU if dbus is missingVBoxSVC consumes 100% CPU if dbus is missing -> fixed in SVN

This should be fixed in SVN.

comment:4 by Dan Rollo, 15 years ago

I've been trying to post a question on the forums about this bug in 2.1.2 for the past couple of days. I've even tried getting the forum to send me my password, but the forum login keeps saying:

Sorry, but your password cannot be retrieved because your account is currently inactive. Please contact the forum administrator for more information.

I really hate to post this here, but there is no email address I could find for the "forum admin". Can anyone tell me where to email to get my forum account reactivated? (Please reply to bha <at> worldnet.att.net)

That said, are there any short term workarounds for this bug?. I'm seeing 100% cpu usage by VBoxSVC on Linux ubuntusrv 2.6.24-23-server #1 SMP running on 32-bit as well. (So the bug reported above appears on 32-bit (i686) arch as well). Also, dbus is installed on this system, so I'm not certain these are really the same bug...

Thanks, Dan

comment:5 by Michael Thayer, 15 years ago

Did you also install hal? It turned out that when hal is missing that also triggered the bug (also fixed in SVN). I will forward the above to one of the forum administrators, and in the meantime feel free to ask about the bug here, since that is the subject of this ticket.

comment:6 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

bhamail, I've activated your forum account. Maybe there was a problem sending you the confirmation E-mail. Please try to login.

comment:7 by Dan Rollo, 15 years ago

My forum account is working. Thanks!

PS: You might want to put the forum admin email address somewhere on the forum (I looked really hard, but couldn't find it...).

PPS: I think I was mistaken - it appears neither dbus nor hal are installed on my Ubuntu server. I am at least sure of the architecture: i686 ;)

comment:8 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fixed in 2.1.4.

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