Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#12861 closed defect (worksforme)
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
| Reported by: | Ken Preslan | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 4.3.8 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I'm running VBox on a 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 host. It's running three VMs of the same version of Ubuntu. There are two ethernet interfaces. One VM is bridged onto both. The other two are bridged onto just eth0.
I've been running VBox in the configuration for years with no problems. After I upgraded to 4.3.8, I've had the machine spontaneously reboot twice. This evening, I had it panic with the attached message in the logs. The stack back-trace was incomplete.
I'll try to install kdump and hopefully get a core and better information next time.
I'm not sure this is VBox's fault, but right now it seems like the most likely culprit.
Is there any other information I should provide?
Attachments (4)
Change History (14)
by , 11 years ago
| Attachment: | VBox.log.1 added |
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by , 11 years ago
The partial GPF message that showed up in /var/log/kern.log.
by , 11 years ago
| Attachment: | malloc_fail.txt added |
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I've always gotten messages like this occasionally. I'm not sure if it's related.
by , 11 years ago
| Attachment: | crash_dmesg.txt added |
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The crash text taken from a kdump when it happened again. It doesn't seem to be a smoking gun either way, but the crash is in VBoxXPCOMIPCD again.
comment:1 by , 11 years ago
I upgraded to 4.3.10 (92957) last night and installed kdump. This afternoon I got another crash. I attached the error text I got by running dmesg inside the crash program.
I can upload the dump if someone wants to see it.
I downgraded to 4.3.6 again. I'll run that way for a while and add a comment if I see a crash again or not.
Thanks!
comment:2 by , 11 years ago
I would be very interested in the kdump. Is it less than 10MB (compressed) so you could email me the dump? frank _dot_ mehnert _at_ oracle _dot_ com ... Otherwise, could you make the image available to me? Unfortunately the anonymous FTP server is not available anymore :-/
comment:4 by , 11 years ago
I had a crash with 4.3.6. Again in VBoxXPCOMIPCD.
Given that I ran with 4.3.6 since it came out with the same config, I'm really starting to doubt this is VirtualBox's fault. I think my hardware is subtly screwed somehow.
Sorry for the noise.
comment:5 by , 11 years ago
Memtest86 passes. The diagnostics in the machine's bios pass.
I downgraded the host to the 3.2.0-59 kernel and the machine hasn't crashed since. It's still a bit early to claim that's the culprit, but I'm hoping.
comment:7 by , 11 years ago
Analyzed the kdump. Unfortunately I see a wrong access which could be due to memory corruption. On the other hand faults seem to happen always during kmalloc.
Any word about how easy to reproduce the problem? You said that this started after updating VirtualBox to 4.3.8. Which was the version you used before?
comment:8 by , 11 years ago
Thanks for taking the time to look at my problem.
I don't think it would be easy to reproduce. My machine crashes every couple of days, but there's no specific thing I do to trigger it. In fact, it's never crashed while I was interacting with it. I can wail on it pretty hard and it runs fine. Then I leave it and do something else and it crashes while I'm away.
The machine is a little server in my basement and runs an apache VM, a postfix/dovecot VM, and a VM that does DHCP/NAT for my house. So, it's never completely idle, but it only has a lot of load when I'm doing something to it.
I've turned off the DHCP server on the last VM and have my house's traffic going through a different box. (Just so my house's internet connection doesn't get disrupted every time the machine crashes.) The machine does a lot less, and it has only crashed once since. So, system load is somewhat of an issue, but I still can't get it to crash at will.
I set up my older 32-bit, non-vmx box in a similar configuration and ran that for a while. I didn't see a crash, but I'm not sure if that's just because the hardware was so much slower. Or maybe it points to a hardware issue. I'm not sure.
I updated from 4.3.6 to 4.3.8 a few days before the first crash. Before that I was running 4.3.4. I generally skip the .0 and .2 of any new release, but other than that I've been running the lastest VirtualBox on this machine since I bought it 3.5 years ago.
I've reproduced the crash with 4.3.6, 4.3.8, 4.3.10, and 4.2.24.
Thanks!
comment:9 by , 11 years ago
comment:10 by , 11 years ago
| Resolution: | → worksforme |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Thanks Ken for letting us know!
From the VM that's bridged to both interfaces. The logs for all three VMs have the part about "VirtualBoxClient: detected unresponsive VBoxSVC (rc=NS_ERROR_ABORT)".