Vbox crashed with general protection error in VBoxDD.so

[mslw]

I was typing in a window inside a 32-bit Windows XP guest when the whole VirtualBox window disappeared. The VM was left in an aborted state but none of the other running VMs were affected. I've not had this problem before and the guest restarted OK.

I found the following related lines in /var/log/messages:

Sep 20 17:45:31 localhost kernel: EMT[4082] general protection ip:7f2db2d2fe37 sp:7f2db1182b00 error:0 in VBoxDD.so[7f2db2c0f000+374000]

and in /var/log/audit/audit.log:

type=ANOM_ABEND msg=audit(1537461931.580:58324): auid=597 uid=597 gid=100 ses=1 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_java_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=4082 comm="EMT" sig=11

I also noticed that the last 2 lines of VBoxSVC.log.1 were:

1345:13:02.074947 main     Saving settings file "/u/martin/VirtualBox VMs/Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.vbox" with version "1.13-linux"
1345:13:02.075809 main     Log rotated - Log started 2018-07-26T15:32:29.856077000Z

and the first 2 lines of VBoxSVC.log were:

1345:13:02.094528 main     Log continuation - Log started 2018-07-26T15:32:29.856077000Z
1345:13:02.422028 Watcher  Reaper: Pid 4040 (fc8) was signalled: 11 (0xb)

so it appears to have crashed very soon after this.

The VBox.log is attached.

[Socratis]

1. Is this reproducible?
2. Do you have the steps to reproduce it?

[aeichner]

Is there some more information available like a complete core dump?

[aeichner]

No follow up form the reporter, closing.