[vbox-dev] [ PATCH] Fix crash on startup under Wayland

[Frank Batschulat]

This has been fixed in the new release 6.1.10

On Wed, 20 May 2020 12:47:47 +0200, Frank Batschulat  
<frank.batschulat at oracle.com> wrote:

> Testbuilds with the fix can be downloaded now:
>
> for Trunk:
> https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-6.1.97-138092-Linux_amd64.run
>
> for 6.1.X:
> https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-6.1.9-138068-Linux_amd64.run
>
> or directly from: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds
> for Trunk any Linux 64-bit .run installer with build >= r138057 and for  
> 6.1.X any build >= r138068
>
> On Thu, 14 May 2020 14:43:01 +0200, Frank Batschulat  
> <frank.batschulat at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hans, I have filed the following bug to track this:
>>
>> [Oracle VM VirtualBox] #19583: GUI crashes when using Qt on Xwayland  
>> sessions
>> https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19583
>>
>> the possible fix for this is still being discussed internally.
>>
>> On Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:00:47 +0200, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I noticed that with a default Fedora 32 workstation install (default  
>>> GNOME3 on
>>> Wayland session) VirtualBox crashes immediately at startup. The  
>>> problem is that
>>> QT5 now defaults to the Wayland backend and VirtualBox assumes the X11  
>>> backend
>>> is used and makes a bunch of unchecked X11 calls which cause NULL  
>>> pointer derefs.
>>>
>>> The attached patch is a simple fix which fixes this by setting the QT  
>>> backend
>>> back to X11.
>>>
>>> As usual, the patch is released under the MIT license.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Hans
>>
>>
>
>


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Oracle Virtualbox Development