[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#772957: virtualbox: bug with vboxnet0, network-manageer and kernel messages

Fri Dec 12 14:08:01 UTC 2014

Package: virtualbox
Version: 4.3.18-dfsg-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
     some time it came up that my network manager grafical interface where it was circeling internely. as i klicked it i found out that it has to do with vboxnet0.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     i opened virtualbox to remove the not anymore needed network interface which resoultet in a freeze of the virtualbox gui. also ive got manny kernel error massages periodicly. After i recognised that output i killed the virtualbox gui using killall and the output stopped. i will attach the last lines of my dmesg in here...
   * What was the outcome of this action?
     for now it is working but i dont know if it will happen again if i add again a vboxnet0 device...
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
     that network manager dosnt get confused with vboxnet0, default configured manually without networkmanager maybe, and that i would be able to remove network interfaces without freezing guis and losts of dmesg errors.

here is the output

essage from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 14:58:32 ...                                                               7:29
 kernel:[90972.468070] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Message from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 14:58:43 ...
 kernel:[90982.596077] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Message from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 14:58:53 ...
 kernel:[90992.716040] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Message from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 14:59:03 ...
 kernel:[91002.856082] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Message from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 14:59:13 ...
 kernel:[91012.980054] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Message from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 14:59:23 ...
 kernel:[91023.096067] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Message from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 14:59:33 ...
 kernel:[91033.232076] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Message from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 14:59:43 ...
 kernel:[91043.364077] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Message from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 14:59:54 ...
 kernel:[91053.512060] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Message from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 15:00:04 ...
 kernel:[91063.636053] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Message from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 15:00:14 ...
 kernel:[91073.796085] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Message from syslogd at treakis-tp at Dec 12 15:00:24 ...
 kernel:[91083.940230] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1

$ dmesg | tail
[91012.980054] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1
[91023.096067] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1
[91033.232076] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1
[91043.364077] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1
[91053.512060] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1
[91063.636053] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1
[91073.796085] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1
[91083.940230] unregister_netdevice: waiting for vboxnet0 to become free. Usage count = 1
[91089.083913] device vboxnet0 left promiscuous mode
[91089.088161] vboxnetflt: 3 out of 284 packets were not sent (directed to host)

tahanks a lot and keep up the good work

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.113+nmu3
ii  dpkg                     1.17.21
ii  libc6                    2.19-12
ii  libcurl3                 7.38.0-3
ii  libdmtx-python [python]  20140917-1
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.9.1-19
ii  libgsoap5                2.8.17-1
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.50-2+b1
ii  libpython2.7             2.7.8-11
ii  libsdl1.2debian          1.2.15-10
ii  libssl1.0.0              1.0.1j-1
ii  libstdc++6               4.9.1-19
ii  libvncserver0            0.9.9+dfsg-6+b2
ii  libvpx1                  1.3.0-3
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxcursor1              1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii  libxext6                 2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxml2                  2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  libxmu6                  2:1.1.2-1
ii  libxt6                   1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii  python                   2.7.8-2
ii  python2.7                2.7.8-11
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.8.dfsg-2

Versions of packages virtualbox recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  10.3.2-1
ii  libqt4-opengl             4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2+b1
ii  libqtcore4                4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2+b1
ii  libqtgui4                 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2+b1
ii  virtualbox-dkms           4.3.18-dfsg-1
ii  virtualbox-qt             4.3.18-dfsg-1

Versions of packages virtualbox suggests:
ii  vde2                            2.3.2+r586-1
ii  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso  4.3.18-1

-- no debconf information