On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 09:49 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 08:30 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700
> > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 22:21 -0400, Go Canes wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023, at 5:52 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in
> particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice;
[snip]
I assume it is not just starting the VirtualBox Manager that is doing this.
It might help to know how much
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 08:30 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700
> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 22:21 -0400, Go Canes wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan Ryshpan
> > > wrote:
> > > > Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to
This is unlikely to be the problem, but it is a fun story:
Many years ago there was a bug in the KVM kernel code that failed to
correctly context switch all the registers in virtual machines.
In this case, the somewhat obscure debug registers. So if I was
running debugger tests inside a virtual
On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 22:21 -0400, Go Canes wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan Ryshpan
> > wrote:
> > > Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in
> > > particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 15:46 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 17:52 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > Libreoffice attempts to restore files being worked on (but it failed
> > to restore about 2 hours' worth of work).
>
> Some thirty-plus years ago I learnt to regularly press
On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 22:21 -0400, Go Canes wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan Ryshpan
> wrote:
> > Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in
> > particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the
> > console. Firefox and Thunderbird just stop;
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 01:15 +, C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in
> particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the console.
> Firefox and Thunderbird just stop; Libreoffice attempts to restore
> files being worked on (but it
On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 17:52 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Libreoffice attempts to restore files being worked on (but it failed
> to restore about 2 hours' worth of work).
Some thirty-plus years ago I learnt to regularly press "CTRL S" to save
the current status of whatever I was working on,
