Bug 26773

Thanks for reporting this, and saying what ISO you used. This needs to be confirmed by other QA ISO testers. I will draw their attention to this problem. At least those using VBox can easily try 32-bit ISOs; real hardware is getting hard to find.

Summary: Cinnamon desktop crash => Cinnamon desktop crash, M8 Alpha 32-bit
CC: (none) => lewyssmith

I cannot confirm. Installed using the i586 classic iso under vb, just unselecting
Plasma and selecting Cinnamon, with everything else kept as defaults. No updates
installed. This is on a Mageia 7 x86_64 host.

Most likely this is related to the virtualbox settings for the guest on the
Display tab.

Increase the video memory to 128MB. Set the graphics controller to VBoxSVGA.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Jose, please alter the settings for that guest and confirm whether or not that
fixes the issue.

The machine is well configured with VboxSVGA and 128 mb of graphics.

Let's compare the rest of the settings.
General  Type    Linux
         Version Mageia 32(bit)
         Shared Clipboard - Bi directional
         Drag & Drop - disabled.
         Disk encryption - unchecked
System   Base Memory 4096MB (I have 16GB on host)
         Chipset PIIX3
         Pointing Device - PS/2 Mouse
         Enable I/O APIC - selected
         Enable EFI - unchecked
         Hardware Clock in UTC Time - selected (mine is set to utc in bios)
         Processors - 2 (quad core host)
         Execution Cap - 100%
         Enable PAE/NX - selected
         Paravirtualization Interface - Default
         Enable VT-x/AMD-V - selected
         Enable Nested Paging - selected
Display  Video Memory - 128MB
         Graphics Controller - VBoxSVGA
         Acceleration - Enable 3D selected

See if any of those settings fix the problem.

Additional info. The free command shows 482MB ram used. I do get a warning about
hardware acceleration not being available, and to check the video drivers, but
I expect that's because the guest does not have the virtualbox-guest-additions
package installed.

This my configuration:

General  Type    Linux
         Version Mageia 32(bit)
         Shared Clipboard - disabled
         Drag & Drop - disabled.
         Disk encryption - unchecked
System   Base Memory 3072MB (I have 16GB on host)
         Chipset PIIX3
         Pointing Device - PS/2 Mouse
         Enable I/O APIC - unchecked
         Enable EFI - unchecked
         Hardware Clock in UTC Time - selected (mine is set to utc in bios)
         Processors - 1 (intel i7 core host)
         Execution Cap - 100%
         Enable PAE/NX - unchecked
         Paravirtualization Interface - Default
         Enable VT-x/AMD-V - selected
         Enable Nested Paging - selected
Display  Video Memory - 128MB
         Graphics Controller - VBoxSVGA
         Acceleration - unchecked

have installed Cinnamon only DE from the 32Bit CI onto real h/w. 

unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the issue.

uname -a
Linux localhost 5.6.15-desktop-1.mga8 #1 SMP Fri May 29 21:24:31 UTC 2020 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

lscpu
Architecture:                    i686
CPU op-mode(s):                  32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:                      Little Endian
Address sizes:                   36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
CPU(s):                          4
On-line CPU(s) list:             0-3
Thread(s) per core:              2
Core(s) per socket:              2
Socket(s):                       1
Vendor ID:                       GenuineIntel
CPU family:                      6
Model:                           58
Model name:                      Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3340M CPU @ 2.70GHz
Stepping:                        9
CPU MHz:                         1482.099
CPU max MHz:                     3400.0000
CPU min MHz:                     1200.0000
BogoMIPS:                        5387.75
Virtualization:                  VT-x
L1d cache:                       64 KiB
L1i cache:                       64 KiB
L2 cache:                        512 KiB
L3 cache:                        3 MiB

CC: (none) => westel

Thanks for all the follow-up.
@José: Can you say whether your VBox host is M7 or M8? Dave's is M7 (c2). Just in case it matters.
Ben's case is real hardware:
> unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the issue
Fortunately, perhaps?

Hi, my Vbox is Mageia 8 alpha.

Greetings.

(In reply to Jose Manuel López from comment #10)
> Hi, my Vbox is Mageia 8 alpha.
Well, here is a difference that might matter.

@Dave: can you poke QA to try this problem:
* M8 Vbox
* M8 Alpha 32-bit Classic ISO
* Install Cinnamon desktop
* Test comment 0.

Leaving it with BugSquad for the moment.

Cannot reproduce this behavior, M8 B1 Classic ISO 32 bits. M7 x86_64 Host.

We will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates in Cauldron.

Closing as OLD.

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED