I'm not a programmer/developer, but just a user. I can answer this question, however:
"Could people having the issue describe exactly what they are doing to trigger it and what's the visible impact? Is that only a warning in the journal log?" In my case I was just doing my normal stuff, openoffice, stellaris, and chromium, when the system ground to a halt, the mouse became choppy, and after clicking on something (eg terminal) it would take minutes to open. I wanted to try 'top' in a terminal but the computer just hung. I had to reset. The 'important' errors just prior to the crash in the log: Cannot access vdagent virtio channel /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop I am running ubuntu 18.10 and it's been pretty reliable overall. This is a regular computer, not a virtual machine. Hope that helps, Mike -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to spice-vdagent in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1800196 Title: spice-vdagent[1345]: Cannot access vdagent virtio channel /dev/virtio- ports/com.redhat.spice.0 Status in spice-vdagent package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hello, $ journalctl -b [...] oct 26 07:26:57 romanescu spice-vdagent[1345]: Cannot access vdagent virtio channel /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 Best regards, -- Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: spice-vdagent 0.17.0-1ubuntu2 Uname: Linux 4.19.0-gnu x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Oct 26 14:34:00 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-13 (378 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926) SourcePackage: spice-vdagent UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice-vdagent/+bug/1800196/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
