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

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 5/14/20 2:43 PM, Frank Batschulat wrote:
> Hans, I have filed the following bug to track this:

Thank you, I wonder though why not ship the next 6.1.z / 6.0.z
release with my workaround for now?

Coming up with a proper fix for this is likely going to
require some time and in the mean time users are being
bitten by this bug.

Also given that I reported this serious bug, which basically
makes VirtualBox completely unusable on default Fedora 32
installs over a month ago I must say I'm a bit disappointed
by how VirtualBox upstream is handing this.

You could have fixed this with the April 14th 6.1.4 release
by including my 1 line workaround for now. Instead you have
let users of VirtualBox on Fedora 32 out in the cold.

Regards,

Hans




> [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
> 
>