[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#777745: starting a VM with Debian 7.8 LXDE desktop ISO causes segfault

[Wouter Verhelst]

Package: virtualbox
Version: 4.3.18-dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

I wanted to have a look at debian-live, so downloaded the file
debian-live-7.8.0-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso from cdimage.debian.org. Then I
configured a virtual machine in virtualbox, with default settings for
"debian (64-bit)" except that I did not add a hard disk.

When trying to boot the system, it would go past grub, then give me a
wite screen with a single line saying "Loading, please wait", and then
the window would disappear.

When I ran "VBoxSDL --startvm <name of VM>", I saw that there was a
segmentation fault. However, I did not seem to be able to produce a core
dump, so I don't know why the segfault occurred.

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

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.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             1.17.23
ii  libc6            2.19-15
ii  libcurl3         7.38.0-4
ii  libgcc1          1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgsoap5        2.8.17-1
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.50-2+b2
ii  libpython2.7     2.7.9-1
ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.15-10+b1
ii  libssl1.0.0      1.0.1k-1
ii  libstdc++6       4.9.2-10
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          2.9.2+dfsg1-3
ii  libxmu6          2:1.1.2-1
ii  libxt6           1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii  python           2.7.8-3
ii  python2.7        2.7.9-1
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages virtualbox recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  10.4.2-2
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-2
ii  virtualbox-qt             4.3.18-dfsg-2
ii  virtualbox-source         4.3.18-dfsg-2

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

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/virtualbox changed:
LOAD_VBOXDRV_MODULE=1
SHUTDOWN_USERS="all"
SHUTDOWN=savestate


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