[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#773609: virtualbox: freezes and reads disk forever with fresh install of a debian jessie VM

[Giorgos Pallas]

Package: virtualbox
Version: 4.3.20-dfsg-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

This is an issue on both 4.3.18 (current testing vb version) and 4.3.20 to
which I upgraded.

There is a problem with installing debian on a new VM.

I downloaded jessie's small installer
(debian-jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso) and installed debian. The install
completed (I did a minimum install: just standard utilities and
openssh-server selected at tasksel).

The VM rebooted after completing the install and then without any command
the VM froze and the disk reads without stopping. I let it over 20 minutes
and it was still reading. During that time the VM console was frozen as well
as the Virtualbox manager. I killed both and then tried to start the VM
again: Both are frozen, showing the dialog box saying: starting virtual
machine, and the disk reads without stop.

I tried the whole procedure over 3 times: Everytime the same. I even tried
to snapshot the machine during the new install. I took during the install
several snapshots without problem, but after the dialog of setting up
partitions etc I pressed the snap button and the VM as well as the VB
manager froze, and the disk started reading without stopping.

I don't think its a disk fault (I/O errors etc) because kernel would show
something and in addition I tried reading the VM file (vdi) and it is read
without problem.

All I see in the kernel is:
[22743.183679] nspr-3: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[22743.183711] nspr-3: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23138.751661] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23138.751695] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23138.884456] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23138.884502] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23144.899777] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!
[23144.899818] nspr-2: sending ioctl 5393 to a partition!

I attach the VBox.log.

I hope I was clear.

Thanks!
Giorgos

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (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/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages virtualbox depends on:
ii  adduser          3.113+nmu3
ii  dpkg             1.17.21
ii  libc6            2.19-13
ii  libcurl3-gnutls  7.38.0-3
ii  libgcc1          1:4.9.1-19
ii  libgsoap5        2.8.17-1
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.50-2+b2
ii  libpython2.7     2.7.8-11
ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.15-10+b1
ii  libssl1.0.0      1.0.1j-1
ii  libstdc++6       4.9.1-19
ii  libvncserver0    0.9.9+dfsg-6.1
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+b1

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           4.3.20-dfsg-1
ii  virtualbox-qt             4.3.20-dfsg-1

Versions of packages virtualbox suggests:
pn  vde2                            <none>
ii  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso  4.3.18-1

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