[vbox-dev] Guests abort when resizing

[Perry Halbert]

Yes built on the same system exactly and run from the same.  I did test 
again on the VT-x enabled host and it aborts as well.

Oh well, back to vrde I guess.  It seems weird that this just started a 
week or so ago.  If I find something I'll let you know.

Thanks




On 07/25/2012 10:50 AM, Klaus Espenlaub wrote:
> On 25.07.2012 16:21, Perry Halbert wrote:
>> gdb shows:
>>
>> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
>> #0 0x00007f717ea0f4e2 in VNCServerImpl::VRDEUpdate
>> (hServer=0x7f7178002bc0, uScreenId=<optimized out>,
>> pvUpdate=0x7f7153fe0338, cbUpdate=<optimized out>) at
>> /trunk/src/VBox/ExtPacks/VNC/VBoxVNC.cpp:457
> The crash is in the code which converts between RGB and BGR color order
> when updating a rectangle. So either the buffer pointers are busted or
> it incorrectly copies more data than it should.
>
>> libvncserver0 = 0.9.8.2
> Hope that you either built the package on the same system, or on a
> system which has exactly the same version. The data structures for the
> VNC library change occasionally, and they're not particularly good with
> symbol versioning which means that the application will link fine
> against the .so file, but later crash because the calling code assumes a
> different data layout than the library.
>
>> Dump is over 200MB. Needless to say this is going to take sometime for
>> me to figure out. I can ftp it to appsdev if you like.
> The problem with such cores for custom built packages is that we'd need
> the matching package, debug info and information about the OS version,
> bitness, special packages and so on. Otherwise gdb would most likely say
> that it can't make sense out of the core.
>
> Klaus
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/25/2012 07:00 AM, Klaus Espenlaub wrote:
>>> On 24.07.2012 03:12, Perry Halbert wrote:
>>>> Update. I turned off the remote display and this solved the issue.
>>>> I use VNC and build the extension pack which has been working really well.
>>>> So is there a way to get this back to operational status or do I need to
>>>> switch back to VRDP?
>>> My suspicion is that the VM process crashes... can you enable core dumps
>>> to see if this hypothesis is right, or run the VM process directly in
>>> gdb? You build everything yourself, so it shouldn't be a problem to have
>>> the debug info available. Could be that your libvncserver is newer and
>>> has a slightly incompatible API somewhere.
>>>
>>> I've tried a similar setup (VBox trunk, matching GA, VNC enabled, VT-x
>>> disabled), but I couldn't get any crashes. Used a different guest OS and
>>> a different linux distro on the host, but this shouldn't really have a
>>> significant influence. Tried with and without a VNC viewer connected.
>>>
>>> I guess that you run the VM in the GUI, because I wasn't able to find a
>>> VNC viewer which would trigger resizes when its window is resized.
>>>
>>> Any obvious patterns for the resize resolution (we removed a "multiple
>>> of 4" restriction for the horizontal resolution recently) which causes
>>> crashes? Does it ever survive a resize?
>>>
>>> Klaus
>>>
>>>> On 07/23/2012 06:27 PM, Perry Halbert wrote:
>>>>> Strange issue this time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Latest batch of builds, not sure exactly when, but within the last
>>>>> week. When resizing the guest (mouse click drag) it aborts. Nothing in
>>>>> the guests log file (no shut down, resize information, or reason it
>>>>> just stops recording) or syslog of the guest. Just like you pulled the
>>>>> plug. Only indication is the main manager shows aborted.
>>>>>
>>>>> Host Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 (no VT-x)
>>>>> Guest Ubuntu 12.04 X86_32 with PAE
>>>>>
>>>>> Everything else works good, including all new features, well except it
>>>>> is really slow and has been for some time, but usable to test with.
>>>>>
>>>>> I increased the vRAM to 64MB from 12MB but that does not seem to be
>>>>> the issue.
>>>>> I removed Version matching GAs and installed 4.1.18, but no change so
>>>>> I don't think it is the GAs.
>>>>> Turned off 3D so that is not the issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note: I do not see this on a matching Ubuntu host with VT-x.
>>>>>
>>>>> Didn't I say strange?
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