Virtualbox hangs on start in Ubuntu 8.10

[Steve]

I tried several different packages from the closed source release, and tried compiling from source. All of them give me the same error. When I start Virtualbox from the terminal with "./VirtualBox", 100% of my CPU is taken up and there is no output. There is no VBox.log file.

I did an strace and discovered that it was repeating the same few lines over and over:

select(8, [7], [], NULL, NULL)          = 1 (in [7])
read(7, "\241\10\324\3300\0 \0053\1\04\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 32
read(7, 0x99a345c, 4096)                = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
select(8, [7], [7], NULL, NULL)         = 1 (out [7])
writev(7, [{"\4\2\300\0 \524\06\0213\0\0+\1\04\0\0\0"..., 32}], 1) = 32
select(8, [7], [], NULL, NULL)          = 1 (in [7])
read(7, "\1 \326\31\0\04\0\0\0\01\0\0@\4 \10\330\254"..., 4096) = 36
read(7, 0x99a345c, 4096)                = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
select(8, [7], [7], NULL, NULL)         = 1 (out [7])
writev(7, [{"\27\02\0001\1\0", 8}], 1) = 8 

So I ran VirtualBox in gdb and added breakpints to all calls of "select". After running for a short time it started repeating the same breakpoint.

Breakpoint 142, 0xb6fc5ba0 in select () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
(gdb) step
Single stepping until exit from function select,
which has no line number information.
0xb6a55862 in xcb_wait_for_reply () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
(gdb)
Single stepping until exit from function xcb_wait_for_reply,
which has no line number information.
0xb6e3f369 in _XReply () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
(gdb)
Single stepping until exit from function _XReply,
which has no line number information.
0xb6e2c217 in XQueryExtension () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
(gdb)
Single stepping until exit from function XQueryExtension,
which has no line number information.
0xb6e20771 in XInitExtension () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
(gdb)
Single stepping until exit from function XInitExtension,
which has no line number information.
0xb6e929a0 in XkbUseExtension () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
(gdb)
Single stepping until exit from function XkbUseExtension,
which has no line number information.

Breakpoint 142, 0xb6fc5ba0 in select () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
(gdb)
Single stepping until exit from function select,
which has no line number information.
0xb6a557b6 in xcb_wait_for_reply () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
...

I have attached my core dump. If there is any other information I can provide, let me know.

[Frank Mehnert]

Duplicate of #2587.