[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#795424: virtualbox-guest-x11: KDM causes vboxvideo driver to crash on assertion at login time.

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

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Hi David



>

>I'm submitting this for 4.3.30-dfsg-1, but 5.0.0-dfsg-1 is also
>affected.
>
>KDM (at least) uses the generations extension in the XServer to avoid
>reloading it.  This triggers an assertion in the vboxvideo driver
>causing a black screen usually right after login.
>
>There's a patch fixing this (and more information that I requested) at
>https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14341.  I'll cherry-pick it and add it
>to the 4.3.x branch.
>
>Additionally, virtualbox 4.3 cannot be compiled with gcc-5.2, the

>default in unstable right now. :-)

thanks for the bug report, however I just packaged 5.0.2 on git,
that contains this fix (and wrote a gcc-5.2 patch)


Ritesh, how do you feel about going for unstable?

Cheers,

Gianfranco