[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[DanglingPointer]

Just stating here that it currently affects 18.04 and 19.04 as guests on
Vbox 6 on Macos (Mac Pro 2018).

Flickering white screen happens only with Wayland and not X.
X works fine.

Guest additions installed as well.
VBox extensions installed as well.

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Daniel van Vugt]

** No longer affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu Artful)

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Ben Mishkanian]

Is it possible to implement the fix in the upstream gnome-shell? It
seems Fedora's gnome-shell is also affected by this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1520005

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

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** Changed in: gnome-shell
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[LocutusOfBorg]

This is fixed in bionic with 5.2.2-3 version (69989.patch).

I don't plan to fix artful, that will go EOL soon, and has an older vbox.
If somebody wants to test a fix, feel free to do it.

In the meanwhile I uploaded the fix in my ppa
https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/virtualbox-ppa

** Changed in: virtualbox (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Hadmut Danisch]

This does definitely not "remove the problem" here.

As said before, installing all guest additions makes the ubuntu guest
run X11 instead of wayland, it then just looks as if the problem had
gone. This might help in terms of usability, but not if you want to use
and test wayland (e.g. to prepare for 18.04) .

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Mikko Hurskainen]

Experienced this after fresh install of 17.10 with Virtualbox .30. Guest
additions + Ubuntu sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade removed the
problem.

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Jeremy Bicha]

** No longer affects: mutter (Ubuntu)

** Also affects: virtualbox (Ubuntu Artful)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu Artful)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** No longer affects: virtualbox (Ubuntu Artful)

** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu Artful)
   Status: New => Triaged

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

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This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 3.26.1-0ubuntu6

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  * Upstream-proposed fix for lid close crash with wayland and virtualbox.
(wayland is behaving badly with vbox dynamic resizing)
(LP: #1724810)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna   Tue, 31 Oct 2017
08:55:10 +0100

** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Fix Released

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

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** Changed in: gnome-shell
   Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: gnome-shell
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Daniel van Vugt]

Note that "Wayland" is not a display server. Wayland is just a protocol
that apps can use to talk to any compatible display server.

The product you're using is "gnome-shell", and the offending component
is possibly "mutter" if not "gnome-shell".

** No longer affects: wayland (Ubuntu)

** Project changed: wayland => ubuntu

** Package changed: ubuntu => gnome-shell

** Changed in: gnome-shell
   Importance: Unknown => Undecided

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #788908
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** Also affects: mutter (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

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** Also affects: wayland via
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788908
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

** Also affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[LocutusOfBorg]

Yep, we got the same issue, not sure what wayland is doing, but probably
this is the issue (quoting upstream)

fun: Wayland crashes if you open and close a laptop lid too fast.  This is 
apparently not a bug but a design error in the protocol.
And it has been causing me endless fun over the past week.
https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/T7722
And likely to play havoc with VirtualBox dynamic resizing:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788908

** Changed in: virtualbox (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

** Changed in: virtualbox (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #788908
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788908

** Also affects: wayland (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Changed in: wayland (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: wayland (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Speedo]

Same here with the final release of 17.10 on macOS 10.13. Log out and
choose Ubuntu on Xorg and no more flickering. More discussion on
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8=85110.

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Hadmut Danisch]

I have removed just guest-x11, and then it runs wayland again, but the
flashes and these off-seconds are back as well. The problem seems to be
directly related to wayland.

I am not familiar with wayland yet, first contact. But when installing
virtualbox-guest-x11 and rebooting, the process Xwayland is absent and
Xorg is present.


And it's just the guest screen, just that particular window the VM is running 
in. 

If I don't touch mouse and keyboard, it happens only occasionally, every
5 or 10 seconds, but once I move the mouse or start a new program
opening it's own window, it happens more often and in most cases
immediately.

It looks like some syncing problem between virtualbox and wayland.

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Michael Thayer]

Are you talking about the guest screen or the host screen flashing?  And
are you sure that X11 is running after installing those packages?  In a
terminal in the guest run "ps -Af | grep X" and see if Xwayland is in
the list.

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[LocutusOfBorg]

Please try to install virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils
without the guest-x11 package, and report back

** Changed in: virtualbox (Ubuntu)
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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Brian Murray]

** Package changed: ubuntu => virtualbox (Ubuntu)

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Hadmut Danisch]

installing virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils and virtualbox-
guest-x11 solves the problem, but then Xorg is running instead of
wayland.

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[Bug 1724810] Re: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox

[Hadmut Danisch]

Upgrading to the latest VirtualBox release 5.2.0 does not help.

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