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Package: virtualbox
Version: 4.3.20-dfsg-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
This is an issue on both 4.3.18 (current testing vb version) and 4.3.20 to
which I upgraded.
There is a problem with installing debian on a new VM.
I downloaded jessie's small installer
(debian-jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso) and installed debian. The install
completed (I did a minimum install: just standard utilities and
openssh-server selected at tasksel).
The VM rebooted after completing the install and then without any command
the VM froze and the disk reads without stopping. I let it over 20 minutes
and it was still reading. During that time the VM console was frozen as well
as the Virtualbox manager. I killed both and then tried to start the VM
again: Both are frozen, showing the dialog box saying: starting virtual
machine, and the disk reads without stop.
I tried the whole procedure over 3 times: Everytime the same. I even tried
to snapshot the machine during the new install. I took during the install
several snapshots without problem, but after the dialog of setting up
partitions etc I pressed the snap button and the VM as well as the VB
manager froze, and the disk started reading without stopping.
I don't think its a disk fault (I/O errors etc) because kernel would show
something and in addition I tried reading the VM file (vdi) and it is read
without problem.
All I see in the kernel is:
[22743.183679] nspr-3: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[22743.183711] nspr-3: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23138.751661] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23138.751695] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23138.884456] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23138.884502] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23144.899777] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23144.899818] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
I attach the VBox.log.
I hope I was clear.
Thanks!
Giorgos
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages virtualbox depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii dpkg 1.17.21
ii libc6 2.19-13
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.38.0-3
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.1-19
ii libgsoap5 2.8.17-1
ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-2+b2
ii libpython2.7 2.7.8-11
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15-10+b1
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1j-1
ii libstdc++6 4.9.1-19
ii libvncserver0 0.9.9+dfsg-6.1
ii libvpx1 1.3.0-3
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1
ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii python 2.7.8-2
ii python2.7 2.7.8-11
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages virtualbox recommends:
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 10.3.2-1
ii libqt4-opengl 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2+b1
ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2+b1
ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2+b1
ii virtualbox-dkms 4.3.20-dfsg-1
ii virtualbox-qt 4.3.20-dfsg-1
Versions of packages virtualbox suggests:
pn vde2 <none>
ii virtualbox-guest-additions-iso 4.3.18-1
-- no debconf information
VBox.log.bz2
Description: BZip2 compressed data
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