[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#443855: virtualbox-ose: hwclock segfaults with kernels >=2.6.22 in client

[Frans Pop]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.5.0-dfsg2-1
Severity: important

I installed Debian in virtualbox. Initially the system was installed
with Debian kernel 2.6.21-2-686 and hwclock works fine.

But after upgrading the kernel in the emulator to 2.6.22-2-686 or
2.6.23-rc7 (self-compiled), hwclock segfaults.

The gdb log with backtrace under 2.6.22 with hwclock from util-linux
(2.13-7) is:
Starting program: /root/projects/util-linux/util-linux-2.13/hwclock/hwclock

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
atomic (name=0x804ec98 "clock read", op=0x804b1b0 <cmos_read>, arg=10) at cmos.c:235
235       __asm__ volatile ("cli");
#0  atomic (name=0x804ec98 "clock read", op=0x804b1b0 <cmos_read>, arg=10) at cmos.c:235
#1  0x0804b485 in synchronize_to_clock_tick_cmos () at cmos.c:435
#2  0x080495f1 in manipulate_clock (show=1, adjust=0, noadjfile=0, set=0, set_time=0, hctosys=0, systohc=0, startup_time=
      {tv_sec = 1190646465, tv_usec = 144453}, utc=0, local_opt=0, testing=0) at hwclock.c:350
#3  0x0804af7a in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=Cannot access memory at address 0xe
) at hwclock.c:1528

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rc7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  lib32gcc1                     1:4.2.1-4  GCC support library (32 bit Versio
ii  lib32stdc++6                  4.2.1-4    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (3
ii  libasound2                    1.0.14a-2  ALSA library
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libc6-i386                    2.6.1-1    GNU C Library: 32bit shared librar
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.2.1-4  GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.0.1-2    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.14.0-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libidl0                       0.8.8-0.1  library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii  libqt3-mt                     3:3.3.7-8  Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsdl1.2debian               1.2.11-9   Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6                    4.2.1-4    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library
ii  libxalan110                   1.10-3.1   Provides XSLT support for applicat
ii  libxcursor1                   1:1.1.9-1  X cursor management library
ii  libxerces27                   2.7.0-4    validating XML parser library for 
ii  libxext6                      1:1.0.3-2  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.5-3  X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  virtualbox-ose-module 1.5.0-dfsg2-1+fjp1 VirtualBox modules for Linux (kern
ii  virtualbox-ose-module 1.5.0-dfsg2-1+fjp1 VirtualBox modules for Linux (kern
ii  virtualbox-ose-module 1.5.0-dfsg2-1+fjp1 VirtualBox modules for Linux (kern
ii  virtualbox-ose-source 1.5.0-dfsg2-1      Source for the VirtualBox module

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