Segmentation fault after logging in to Windows 7 x86 (Clipboard) -> probably fixed in 3.0.10

I do have a core dump (~200MB gzipped)

VBox also crashes if the guest is Windows XP x86

I'm able to reproduce the issue on another computer, where openvz is not installed. The issue appears if I connect to the computer through vnc.

Frank, I've got a core dump using your pre-compiled binaries virtualbox-bin-3.0.6 Attaching new VBox.log.

I have the same problem starting with Virtualbox 3.0.6 with my Windows XP guests. My VBox.log file stops with the same lines as the first one above:

00:01:22.751 Starting host clipboard service

00:01:22.751 Initializing X11 clipboard backend

00:01:22.754 ClipStopX11: stopping the shared clipboard X11 backend

Sorry forgot some additional information: Debian unstable, 2.6.30-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Mon Aug 3 17:32:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux. "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3050 @ 2.13GHz"

I have also seen this problem with Virtualbox 3.0.6 and 3.0.8 with my Windows XP guest when running VirtualBox inside of a VNC session. My Vbox.log file also ends with 00:14:02.707 ClipStopX11: stopping the shared clipboard X11 backend Removing Guest additions or not running inside of VNC resolves the problem.

I never tried running outside of VNC but I can confirm that removing the Guest additions or disabling the Clipboard sharing works around the issue for me.

Sorry, I noticed this ticket a little late. Would one of the people experiencing this issue be able to get a core dump of the crash please? (avs, do you still have yours?)

See http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Core_dump for instructions on how to generate a core dump.

Replying to michael:

Sorry, I noticed this ticket a little late. Would one of the people experiencing this issue be able to get a core dump of the crash please? (avs, do you still have yours?)

I do, it's about 300Mb compressed. Where should I upload it to?

Sent private mail with an upload link.

Uploaded.

I also got a core dump from one of my systems (XP guest, Debian host).

61M when compressed with bzip2. Where can I send that to?

Steltek: sorry for the delay in answering (lots of other things in parallel). If you still have your core dump, I will send you a private mail telling you where to upload it, otherwise I avs's dump should hopefully do the trick.

Replying to michael:

Steltek: sorry for the delay in answering (lots of other things in parallel). If you still have your core dump, I will send you a private mail telling you where to upload it, otherwise I avs's dump should hopefully do the trick.

I still have it. You can either PM me on the community forums or mail me at vboxcoredump@tcnnet.com

I think that I have fixed this in 3.0.10. It would be great if you could give that a try when it becomes available. Note that the problem was that the clipboard initialisation on the host was failing, and that we were not handling that correctly. Ergo, the clipboard will almost certainly not work for you. I have added additional logging to see why the initialisation is failing.

The segmentation fault is indeed fixed and yes, clipboard shared doesn't work. Initialisation fails with this:

00:01:26.974 Guest Log: VBoxTray: Started. 00:01:27.068 Starting host clipboard service 00:01:27.068 Initializing X11 clipboard backend 00:01:27.069 Shared clipboard: failed to load the XFIXES extension. 00:01:27.069 Shared clipboard: failed to setup the termination mechanism. 00:01:27.069 Shared clipboard: initialisation failed: VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED 00:01:27.069 Failed to initialise the shared clipboard 00:01:27.113 Guest Additions capability report: (0x5) seamless: yes, hostWindowMapping: no, graphics: yes 00:02:22.829 Guest Log: VBOXNP: DLL loaded.

Do we need to open a new ticket for that?

Upgrading to 3.0.10 fixed the segmentation fault. Thanks.

Steltek: don't know if it is worth creating a new ticket, unless this annoys the other subscribers to this one. Actually I suspected that the problem was that your X server doesn't support XFIXES, and we made that a requirement sometime in the 3.0 series as without it, the clipboard code needed some rather ugly and fragile workarounds. What sort of X server are you using? Presumably not a recent X.Org.

I'm actually running VirtualBox from within vnc4server (Debian package version 4.1.1+X4.3.0-32). I'll have to check and see if I can somehow get XFIXES loaded in there.

Some quick googling says that it supports XFIXES, and that you just need to add the parameters "-extension XFIXES" to the command line.

I read the same thing, however it doesn't work. The VNC server log output shows this:

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Unrecognized option: -extension use: X [:<display>] [option] -a # mouse acceleration (pixels) -ac disable access control restrictions ... Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. Underlying X server release 40300000, The XFree86 Project, Inc

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So I guess the Debian version of vnc4server does not support that (or it needs to be enabled differently somehow).