VirtualBox

Ticket #7396 (closed defect: obsolete)

Opened 13 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

FreeTSD: failed to destroy key when starting a Windows VM

Reported by: ckujau Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 3.2.8
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Windows Host type: Mac OS X

Description (last modified by klaus) (diff)

When starting a Windows (XP, NT4) VM via VBoxHeadless, the following error appears on the console:

$ VBoxHeadless -s winxp
FreeTSD: failed to destroy key: Undefined error: 0
VBoxHeadless(27472,0xb058b000) malloc: *** error for object 0x11ce50: double free
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

The VM gets started normally however and is running just fine. So, despite the "error" it's just a warning. I've seen this for a while now and a quick search  reveals that this warning has been there in 3.2.6 too. I don't know about earlier releases though.

My host system (and the system in the blogentry above) is MacOS 10.6.4. I'm running in 32bit mode now, don't know if this happens for other host types too.

Attachments

virtualbox-gdb-1.txt Download (3.3 KB) - added by ckujau 13 years ago.
VBoxHeadless via gdb, with breakpoint in malloc_error_break
virtualbox-gdb-2.txt Download (15.9 KB) - added by ckujau 12 years ago.
VBoxHeadless via gdb, with breakpoint in malloc_error_break

Change History

Changed 13 years ago by ckujau

VBoxHeadless via gdb, with breakpoint in malloc_error_break

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by frank

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

Please reopen if still relevant with VBox 4.0.4.

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by ckujau

  • Status changed from closed to reopened
  • Resolution fixed deleted

Yes, it still happens with VBox 4.0.4 (now with MacOS 10.6.6). Again, it does not have any impact AFAICT. I just noticed it's also happening for a Ubuntu Linux VM. I've only seen this for Windows VMs before:

$ VBoxHeadless -s ubuntu
Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.0.4
(C) 2008-2011 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

FreeTSD: failed to destroy key: Undefined error: 0
VBoxHeadless(36080,0xb04e7000) malloc: *** error for object 0x11dc20: double free
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
VRDE server is listening on port 38909.

Changed 12 years ago by ckujau

VBoxHeadless via gdb, with breakpoint in malloc_error_break

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by mankoff

I am having this same error, but unlike the OP, the virtual machine does not start.

$ VBoxHeadless -s Ubuntu
Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.1.8
(C) 2008-2011 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

FreeTSD: failed to destroy key: Undefined error: 0
Segmentation fault

It would be nice to be able to start the VM from the command line. Is there a work-around?

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by 4F2E4A2E

Exactly the same here:

Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.1.8
(C) 2008-2011 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

FreeTSD: failed to destroy key: Undefined error: 0
Segmentation fault: 11

MacOSX Lion 10.7.2

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by klaus

  • Host type changed from other to Mac OS X
  • Description modified (diff)

The "FreeTSD: failed to destroy key" message is (and always was) completely harmless. So this bug is just a random collection of crashes which probably have very little in common, and there are no details what could be the root cause.

Just a crash in malloc on OSX...

comment:6 Changed 7 years ago by aeichner

  • Status changed from reopened to closed
  • Resolution set to obsolete

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.

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