Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 10 years ago
#5961 closed defect
VBoxManage hangs on futex wait — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Jakob Østergaard Hegelund | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | VM control | Version: | VirtualBox 3.2.6 |
| Keywords: | futex hang lockup | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I have an automated system which keeps about four VirtualBox guests (various guest operating systems) running. Each guest runs for a few hours - when it shuts down, the driver script uses VBoxManage to destroy the VM, import and configure a new one and finally start the newly imported VM. The driver script also uses VBoxManage to query the status of running VMs (list runningvms, showvminfo etc.).
Every now and then (a few times a week) I end up having VBoxManage processes hanging doing nothing. They appear to be frozen - output from 'top' claims they sleep on the futex_wait channel.
If I run a "VBoxManage list vms" manually (or any other VBoxManage command that interacts with the virtual machines), it too will just hang indefinitely.
My guess is that the VBoxManage commands all talk to the same common daemon (VBoxSVC?), and that this daemon somehow doesn't respond. But I have no way of debugging this any further.
Is there anything I can do to help resolve this issue? Does VBoxSVC log information somewhere I didn't see? Would it be helpful with an strace/backtrace/...? Is anyone else seeing this issue?
The host system is Debian Lenny (linux 2.6.26-2-amd64); I also a parallel VB setup on Solaris where this problem never occurs (Solaris doesn't have futexes of course).
