Public bug reported:
Experienced complete system lockup and hang on two different machines
when trying to boot a VirtualBox VM running Fedora 29 live (no virtual
disk) when Firefox is open with a few (~5-10) inactive tabs.
System 1:
4GB RAM host
1536MB guest, no virtual disk
swapfile
System 2:
6 GB RAM host
1792MB guest, no virtual disk
separate swap partition (4GB)
- Load Fedora in guest from live ISO
On boot of the guest (after boot menu), the entire system locks up for
easily 30 minutes or more, with constant host disk activity. GNOME shell
becomes completely unresponsive, can move the cursor some but
interacting doesn't work and the UI shell doesn't respond to mouse
hover. Requires closing the lid to attempt force sleep and resume to be
able to regain access to the applications and GNOME shell. After
resuming, VM seems to be usable.
Seems like the system is running low on memory but not
handling/terminating applications, and thrashing, and/or there are bad
memory leaks happening when booting the VM.
Expected behaviour:
Runs normally or fails out of memory without locking up the entire system.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: virtualbox 5.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jan 2 22:16:38 2019
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-13 (203 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: virtualbox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
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System completely hangs, high disk I/O when running a VirtualBox VM
alongside Firefox with a few tabs open
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