vbox* modules breaks suspend (hang or reboot)

[Eugene San]

Loading kernel modules from 4.1 breaks suspend functionality on Ubuntu 11.04. Attempt to suspend usually hangs but sometimes restarts the machine.

Issues existed also in 4.1 beta versions. 4.0 works perfectly.

[Ionut Biru]

related to this #9253 ?

[Eugene San]

#9253 doesn't look related. I am experiencing issues only when trying to suspend. Shutdown/Reboot and Loading/Unloading modules works fine. In addition I am using different kernel version.

[Nicholas Jessen]

I'm having the same issue with Ubuntu 10.04 (32-bit) as the host OS. Sleep and hibernate hang if the vboxdrv module is running. If I stop the vboxdrv module before trying to hibernate or sleep, everything works fine. Sleep and hibernate worked fine when I was using VirtualBox 4.0.12 and and several previous versions.

[suboptimist]

Same issue here. I'm also running VirtualBox 4.1.0 on Ubuntu 11.04. Trying to sleep or hibernate results in a black but not turned off screen and the capslock and "arrow-down" LED synchronously blinking. Only chance is reboot.

[suboptimist]

Adding the following line in /etc/pm/config.d/unload_modules fixes the problem for me:

SUSPEND_MODULES="$SUSPEND_MODULES vboxdrv vboxnetflt vboxnetadp vboxpci "

[Ionut Biru]

still,that is a workaround. the proper way is fixing the actually bug in vboxdrv

[suboptimist]

Of course it is. I just thought it might save time for inexperienced users like me if I post the workaround I found.

[bikehead]

I have the same problem with Fedora 15 (32bit)

[Frank Mehnert]

Sometimes after suspending + resuming the host I see timing problems and reloading the modules makes these problems away. Do all of you agree that your problems are 4.1 regressions? What happens if you only unload the vboxpci module before suspending?

[Frank Mehnert]

Oh, and could you attach /var/log/kern.log from your host kernel right before you suspend the host?

[bikehead]

I unloaded all the vbox* modules and then loaded up vboxdrv and suspend failed. With all the modules loaded when I removed only vboxpci.

btw: on fedora the /etc/pm/config.d/unload_modules trick didn't work for me.

[Martin Heimes]

HP 625 Debian Squeeze

[Martin Heimes]

HP 625 notebook, Debian Squeeze 32bit: suspend/resume works with VBox 3.2 and 4.0 ... but 4.1 no workie.

vbox 4.1 and suspend/resume works on two other machines, both Debian Wheezy

attached file is detail from /var/log/kern.log starts with vbox update to 4.1.0 and has failed suspend short time after

[davescafe]

I am also affected by this defect using VirtualBox 4.1.

I have an HP Compaq 8510w.

Stopping the vboxcrv service solves the problem, but of course without the service, VirtualBox won't start.

[Frédéric Buclin]

This happened to me too, with Mageia 1. When shutting down my PC, a kernel panic occurs, with the call trace shown in this ​screenshot (you can read the ​full article). This problem didn't happen with VirtualBox 4.0.12.

[tshann]

I have an HP DV6000 laptop. I'm running Crunchbang Linux with Debian Squeeze - kernel 2.6.32-5-686. I have this same effect. Whether a VM is running or not, 4.1 fouls suspend or hibernate. With suspend, I can go into suspend. But when I try to resume, I just have a black unresponsive screen. I just went back to 3.18 and now have a functioning suspend/hibernate. So for this lappie, the same problem is reproducible every time with 4.1.

On a separate note, I went back to 3.18 because it USED to allow me to actually suspend or hibernate my Linux host, and my Windows XP guest would not be harmed when I resumed. I didn't even have to pause the VM, it just worked. But now, after re-installing 3.18, that capability is no longer functioning. The VM is just gone after resuming. Oh well, at least 3.18 doesn't hose suspend and resume in general.

[Sergio Callegari]

I think that it only happens on 32 bit systems. My 64 bit systems are not affected, the 32 bit one is.

[Joe Burgess]

This bug has also been reported in the Ubuntu bug tracker at ​https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/814323. Hopefully that helps you out.

[Jerry LeVan]

Suspend is broken on Fedora 15 with the last 3 PAE kernels, the most recent is

2.6.38.8-35.fc15.i686.PAE

I am running an up to date Fedora 15 on an i7 based laptop with the nouveau driver.

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

Please see #9305 for the solution. Closing this as a duplicate.