Bug 688

Summary:	weird instability while installing on multicore vbox
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	AL13N <alien>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	virtualbox	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	install.log

Description AL13N 2011-04-07 21:20:58 CEST

Description of problem:
during installation, i experience sometimes a freeze, and a hang is experienced

How reproducible:
not very easily reproduced

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install mageia in vbox VM with 4 cores and 4gb ram with the x86_64 DVD beta 1
2. it seems during either package install or package updates, it freezes completely


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Yann Ciret 2011-04-07 21:36:14 CEST

I have met me also this problem. I reproduced it only when I leaving the VM running in the background and when I do another task on physical machine. When I keeping the mouse cursor active in the VM, I have not reproduced it.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 2 AL13N 2011-04-07 21:38:57 CEST

hmm, yes, i also left it running in background

was it multicore for you too?

Comment 3 Yann Ciret 2011-04-07 22:05:55 CEST

Yes

vbox VM with 4 cores and 1gb ram with the x86_64 DVD beta

I saw this pb also with alpha 2

Comment 4 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-06 15:57:14 CEST

Please always try and fill the RPM Package field.

Source RPM: (none) => virtualbox

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-02 00:28:21 CEST

Well no really info and old, so I close, feel free to reopen if the bug is still valid.

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

Comment 6 AL13N 2011-10-02 12:03:08 CEST

i just tested this on a vbox install with 4cores and 4GB RAM, the install hangs at 2min until finish installing.

can someone reproduce?

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

Comment 7 Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-03 00:16:22 CEST

can you attach the file /root/drakx/report.gz

Comment 8 AL13N 2011-10-03 02:00:46 CEST

i have no /root/drakx/report.gz (likely because it didn't complete the installation), but i do have an install.log file

Comment 9 AL13N 2011-10-03 02:01:17 CEST

Created attachment 887 [details]
install.log

Comment 10 Thierry Vignaud 2011-10-04 17:57:19 CEST

Can you attach a compressed tarball of all /root/drakx/* ?
Also, are you sure it's not a virtualbox bug?

See eg "fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests " in https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 11 AL13N 2011-10-04 20:54:03 CEST

i have no idea if it is or isn't a virtualbox bug. I just have this issue during install, i did not compile anything. it's not 100% reproducable, but almost always it has it at some time during install.

Comment 12 Thierry Vignaud 2011-10-05 07:37:47 CEST

Please try latest vbox

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 13 AL13N 2011-10-05 08:36:58 CEST

at this time i'm unable to do so, i'll try this later.

Comment 14 Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-30 02:16:44 CET

ping ? :)

Comment 15 Marja Van Waes 2011-12-23 15:33:42 CET

Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information.

Closing as OLD.

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11
Resolution: (none) => OLD