As outlined in #55 unless we identify a smaller set of fixes I'm unsure
what we could do for Focal.
I'm out of ideas, the only one good thing is that it seems better in
later versions and got more rare. But I hate when I do not understand
all of a problem, here I might need help from
I noticed this issue with Kubuntu (Plasma) host and Ubuntu (GNOME)
guest.
I thought I was the only one affected since this makes almost impossible
to use VMs with GUI (desktop). Not that you wouldn't be able to run them
but that you realize that you use Ctrl+c/Ctrl+v so often that when it
doesn't
Recent Bug 1922942 made me aware that this is again showing up in recent
versions.
Kubuntu 21.04 shows very similar symptoms, but non-KDE systems seem not
affected at all.
I was able to use it without any trouble on gnome based Ubuntus (Host and
Guest).
Does any of the involved/subscribed
issue still present after installing
libspice-client-glib-2.0-8_0.38-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5_0.38-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper_0.38-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
and rebooting
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Interesting thanks Jakub, 0.38 is in groovy and later
spice-gtk | 0.37-2fakesync1 | focal/universe | source
spice-gtk | 0.38-2ubuntu1 | groovy/universe | source
spice-gtk | 0.38-2ubuntu1 | hirsute/universe | source
But being a protocol change [1] I'm unsure we can SRU this to Focal
Actually, the issue for both Linux and Windows guests is resolved by this fix
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/-/issues/82
You do not need to do anything else just install the latest 0.38 spice-
client libs on the host (on Ubuntu 20.04):
@paelzer
Thank you, Christian.
Yes, I am aware of the workaround as I am using it on Windows (stopping the
VDAgent is sufficient on the guest). The only way to use the guest reasonably
(you would never tell how copy/paste is used frequently during coding)
Currently, I am happy with the patch on
Thanks Jakub for that confirmation!
But as discussed before that most likely means we can't fix it in Focal
as the updates needed bring too much regression potential for a low prio
issue that has alternative (to admit - non perfect) workarounds (e.g.
the disabling of the clipboard - which avoids
@paelzer Hello Christian, fix small fix did not help but bigger fix
works for me fine on focal.
I did not have to update the spice-vdaagent on the host. All I did was
update on the guest and things started working instantly (after reboot
of course).
I can help in further testing if needed.
Now,
@paelzer I have an update.
After correctly applying the big fix on the guest too, the bug was still
occurring but much more rarely.
But now, after I tried disabling Klipper (the KDE clipboard history manager) on
both host and guest, the bug seems to have disappeared completely (and
copy still
@paelzer Christian: When checking my installed packages today I just
realized that I didn't actually update spice-vdagent on my guest
machine, I only updated it on the host (臘♂️)... So, I am retesting
again (starting from the big fix). I apologize for the mistake!
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Out of desperation, I now tried to enable "Ignore selection" (I don't
really use that feature anyway) in my Clipboard settings on KDE on both
Host and Guest, and see if that changes anything (while still using the
big fix for the time being).
I am trying that because I noticed that often, when
Thanks Giacomo, then we are back to step I - not even knowing what to
consider backporting :-/
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@paelzer Christian: the bug still happens for me even when using the big
fix solution.
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The problem is still here with Kubuntu 20.04 updated today for guest and host:
clipboard works erratically and sometimes is bloked.
The proposed solution don't work fr me because I need to copy from host and
paste in guest.
The only workaround I found is to use mate desktop in the guest.
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From
https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#graphical-framebuffers
"Copy & Paste functionality (via Spice agent) is set by the clipboard
element. It is enabled by default, and can be disabled by setting the
copypaste property to no. Since 0.9.3"
So yeah if disabling this turns out to be a
I came across the same issue with a guest distro.
I finally solved it by editing the XML File of the "Display Spice" section in
the VM settings in virt-manager.
Open the details window of the affected VM in virt-manager.
Navigate to the section "Display Spice".
Click on the Tab "XML" (XML
Christian: the bug occurred again today while using the small fix
version: so that one didn't solve it for me.
I will start using the big fix now and see how it goes through the next
weeks.
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Great - thank you for that Giacaomo
Note to myself, for the sake of finding things more easily next time:
https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/spice-vdagent/+git/spice-vdagent/+ref/lp1872527-clipboard-handling-small
Thank you, Christian!
I began testing the small fix first: I will use it for a couple weeks and see
if the bug happens again.
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Hi Gicaomo,
yeah every now and then I need to clean up most old builds to not get slapped
by the admins :-)
I have refreshed them:
small fix:
https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/4187/+packages
big fix (more likely to help, but not really SRUable to Fical):
@paelzer Hello Christian, since I am affected by this bug (Kubuntu
20.04) I wanted to try those PPAs mentioned in your last comment, but
the links aren't working. Is there any update on all this?
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Since bug 1852183 is released this is fixed for many but not all cases.
More people chime in to be affected and there seems to be a spike of KDE users
in that (which makes sense as they won't see a mutter change have any effect
for them I guess).
We already had a PPA [1] to try with something
Just chiming in to say that I am experiencing this problem on a fresh
install of Kubuntu 20.04. I previously experienced it on a forced
upgrade from 19.10->20.04; I thought perhaps the upgrade process was too
premature so I wiped and started fresh. Still broken. Sometimes it
works, sometimes it
I have experienced the same inconsistencies as reported by OP between Ubuntu
20.04 guest and hosts. The guest is connected through SPICE. On top of that,
the clipboard has been working unreliably within the host system (i3). For
example, I often have to copy multiple times the same text to have it
Actually another scenario which is even worse now that I have experienced again
today, is copy/paste is broken within libreoffice, on a VM. It gets to the
point libreoffice hangs completely, and then the VM itself. Eventually the VM
logs me right off. Logging back on, and launching libreoffice,
A general userland comment:
Reading the above, I experience this among Centos VMs. It is very hard
to reproduce for typical text copy/pastes involving bash terminals, text
files, and spreadsheets (libre).
However, it plagues me for copying from Firefox web pages. It is so bad
that I often open
We know (from the commits) that it is a race - maybe the race window is
actually rather small and only few people run into it (and rarely).
Having it fixed in 20.10 is already a good thing.
But the SRU of a fix will need some sort of reproducer, especially with this
somewhat more complex change
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to re-enact the buggy state when I
uninstalled the packages. Not sure why.
I even tried to upgrade a clean version of Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 and
still can't get the buggy state with that version.
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Thanks, the versions in the guest should be good then.
So does it work and fix the bug?
Unfortunately just knowing that it "works" isn't enough it should be relibaly
switching between buggy and good state when changing the package versions (and
reboot the guest).
Otherwise we might just look at
this is guest-after.txt
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Ok so I'm attaching the dpkg -l output after my tests. I found no
obvious issues with the fix in ppa2.
I also tested the ppa2 on a freshly installed Ubuntu 20.04 and found no
obvious issues. The team might want to consider deploying this fix and
see if it could help more users and get their
ok let me try. I tried to upgrade another VM from 18.04 to 20.04 to do
this, but I didn't experience any copy and paste issues by doing so.
The affected VM was from 19.10 to 20.04. I will test the VM out with
your suggestions
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@lwk32 - If you remove your self-built spice-vdagent and spice protocol
and reset reset spice* to the versions from (your) archive that should
be fine.
You then should be able to run with spice-vdagent 0.19.0-2ubuntu0.1~ppa2
from the PPA.
My assumption is that this won't be enough missing the
You are right. I need to build spice-protocol 0.14.1 to get spice-
vdagent 0.20 to work.
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I don't mind trying out the ppa, but my distro is Pop OS Ubuntu 20.04.
Is that alright?
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There are plenty of components involved in "trying" to fix this by spice
upstream.
The discussion in
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/-/issues/9
is rather long.
It eventually seems to be fixed in
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/-/merge_requests/4
I think
** Changed in: spice-vdagent (Debian)
Status: Unknown => Fix Released
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Since Daniel split up the "related but not the same" mutter changes to
bug 1852183 (thanks for that work BTW!) let us here focus on the spice
component.
Thanks lwk32 for identifying a fix for that, I'll be taking a look if
that is SRU-safely backportable to Focal.
** Also affects: spice-vdagent
update - after manually building and installing spice-vdagent 0.20 from
Groovy, spice's clipboard works as expected.
I no longer need to disable clipboard on virt manager to resolve the
copy and paste issues.
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** Also affects: spice (Fedora) via
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1600798
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
** Description changed:
+ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/issues/9
+
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I'm testing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Beta.
I
I have issues with copy and pasting on KVM too. In fact, it freezes the
IDEs (vs code/intellij) when i tried to copy and paste. Sometimes it
cause vs code to crash too.
After searching around, I found another person who has the exact same issues
albeit on Red Hat:
In case anyone lands on the wrong bug, as often happens, please see also
bug 1852183.
** Also affects: spice (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: spice (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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No mutter is not used in Kubuntu as far as I know.
I was wondering about that. If you can reproduce the bug without Mutter being
involved then obviously it shouldn't be assigned to Mutter. I will shotgun a
few related projects... They might not all be to blame but at least other
people will be
Hi Daniel,
Thank you.
Btw. is Mutter also in Kubuntu (KDE Plasma)? The reason I'm asking is
that this issue is not just happening between Ubuntu host and Ubuntu
guest (more details above). This is also happening between Kubuntu host
and Kubuntu guest.
If there is no mutter in Kubuntu then this
There's a surprising number of clipboard fixes already landed upstream
and waiting to be released in mutter 3.36.2 -- we should probably wait
and see if they help. Most of them don't have associated bug reports :/
Also, in case you haven't already please try both 'Ubuntu' and 'Ubuntu
on Wayland'.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: mutter (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Hi Bryce,
After long testing I have no problems with any key shortcuts (Ctrl+d and
Ctrl+z for example), I only see this issue when using Clipboard.
I tested:
Kubuntu host with Console (Qt terminal) and Ubuntu guest with GNOME terminal
(GTK) - problem
Kubuntu host with Console (Qt terminal) and
It sort of sounds like there is a race condition going on in the
consumption of the key sequence. I don't want to guess exactly what the
problem is in this particular case, but just as general X info (which
you probably already know...):
Keyboard input is processed through several levels...
In my case (with Kubuntu 20.04) I can't even have the virt-manager
window opened since it's messing up with the host clipboard (KDE Plasma
clipboard). I need to close the virt-manager or I need to open a VM with
no desktop (a server without X is fine).
In other words:
1. host Kubuntu with guest
> Thank you. Did you try it on Ubuntu or Kubuntu host?
Host was Ubuntu
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Hi Christian,
Thank you. Did you try it on Ubuntu or Kubuntu host?
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I can't recreate this on a 20.04 host neither with virt-manager open or not.
Only in the guest.
I tried editor (gnome) and kate (KDE editor) on y gnome based 20.04.
Very awkward issue, I hope my video helps and I'm looking forward to
what Desktop people say as well.
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Hi Christian,
> I found some odd behavior, sometimes it would seem as if my copy would not
> work.
> Pasting then would paste "nothing" later on if I copy something again it
> would "free up" and unblock all old calls, suddenly pasting all of them.
>
> Example
> text editor with:
> aa
> bb
>
@Desktop Team:
For its similarity with bug 1852183 I'll start with `mutter`, but please
re-triage this to where you think this really belongs.
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