[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] testing virtualbox 1.6.6

[Joseph Rawson]

On Thursday 04 September 2008 11:47:53 Joseph Rawson wrote:
> On Thursday 04 September 2008 02:49:51 Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Donnerstag, 4. September 2008, Joseph Rawson wrote:
> > > I just built the virtualbox 1.6.6 package and I've been giving it a
> > > test run.
> > >
> > > It seems that the linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 is running just fine now.  I
> > > tested it at least 10+ times, doing both reboots and poweroffs.  It
> > > hasn't caused a problem yet! :)
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I did the same here, but unfortunately I cannot confirm your results, at
> > least linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 crashes pretty reliably for me
> > (linux-image-2.6.26-1-486 seems to be more stable, but I haven't been
> > able to do enough tests to confirm that reliably, as the whole issue
> > doesn't trigger always and depends a lot on the kernel configuration and
> > other circumstance).
>
> I'm sorry to hear that. :(
> I do know that there aren't any claims by the virtualbox developers that
> this release fixes that problem.  I just saw a comment on the forums and
> decided that it was worth a try.  I rebooted over and over and powered off
> and on a few times.  I've been using the stock configuration that comes
> with debian. This was enough to kill it at leas 75% of the time on 1.6.2 . 
> I'm going to disable VT and try it again a few times to see if that is
> what's keeping it from crashing on my system.  I'll let you know the
> results.
>
Well, that was quick.  As soon as I disabled VT, it crashed on the first boot.  
Same problem.
First boot I get crash.
Powered off.  Second boot went fine.  Logged in and typed reboot.  The restart 
crashed with "BUG: unable to handle kernel".  Powered off.  Fourth boot gave 
me the same oops again "Fatal exception in interrupt".

Anyway this confirms that the problem still exists, and it seems to be more 
likely to occur when VT is disabled.
> > Regards
> > 	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann



-- 
Thanks:
Joseph Rawson
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