#19086 assigned defect

rm / rmdir not working correctly in shared folders

Reported by:	Reiner Brodbeck	Owned by:
Component:	shared folders	Version:	VirtualBox 6.0.14
Keywords:	rm rmdir shared folder vboxsf	Cc:
Guest type:	Linux	Host type:	Windows

Description

As it seems that comments to existing tickets are not enough, I make a ticket out of my comment to #18569.

Since the beginning of VirtualBox v6.x the "rm -r" command is not working correctly in shared folder within a Linux guest.

I attach a screen shot of an example what happens.

Host: Windows 10 1903 Guest: CentOS 6.6, kernel 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64

Attachments (3)

sharedFolderProblem.txt (1.9 KB ) - added by Reiner Brodbeck 5 years ago.
dirtest.sh (330 bytes ) - added by Frank Batschulat (Oracle) 5 years ago.
dirtest3.sh (959 bytes ) - added by Frank Batschulat (Oracle) 5 years ago.

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Change History (15)

by Reiner Brodbeck, 5 years ago

Attachment:	sharedFolderProblem.txt added

comment:1 by Frank Batschulat (Oracle), 5 years ago

Owner:	set to Frank Batschulat (Oracle)
Status:	new → accepted

that's presumably an issue which relates to the older kernel, I have not observed such misbehavior with newer kernels of the 5.X series.

Will try reproduce with a CentOS 6.10 guest now.

comment:2 by Frank Batschulat (Oracle), 5 years ago

I can reproduce this issue very easy using the attached scripts dirtest.sh / dirtest3.sh iff I run a Linux guest on a Windows host, I cannot reproduce the behavior on a Linux host. I do not have a MacOS host right now.

Host:

Windows 10
    Build 1809

Guest:

CentOS release 6.10
    Linux 2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 13 15:39:52 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 

15:59:23.221701 main     VBoxService 6.0.14 r133895 (verbosity: 0) linux.amd64 (Oct 10 2019 20:44:32) release log
15:59:23.221705 main     Log opened 2019-11-14T15:59:23.221647000Z
15:59:23.221785 main     OS Product: Linux
15:59:23.221863 main     OS Release: 2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.x86_64
15:59:23.221892 main     OS Version: #1 SMP Wed Nov 13 15:39:52 UTC 2019
15:59:23.221920 main     Executable: /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-6.0.14/sbin/VBoxService
15:59:23.221921 main     Process ID: 1930
15:59:23.221922 main     Package type: LINUX_64BITS_GENERIC
15:59:23.223549 main     6.0.14 r133895 started. Verbose level = 0
15:59:23.224272 main     vbglR3GuestCtrlDetectPeekGetCancelSupport: Supported (#1)
vboxsf: g_fHostFeatures=0x8000000f g_fSfFeatures=0x1 g_uSfLastFunction=29
vboxsf: Successfully loaded version 6.0.14
vboxsf: Successfully loaded version 6.0.14 on 2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions  (LINUX_VERSION_CODE=0x20620)
SELinux: initialized (dev vboxsf, type vboxsf), uses genfs_contexts
15:59:23.276130 automount vbsvcAutomounterMountIt: Successfully mounted 'Pictures' on '/media/sf_Pictures'
fuse init (API version 7.14)

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
    Linux 5.0.0-36-generic #39~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 11:09:50 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[   11.236865] 16:39:38.429570 main     VBoxService 6.0.14 r133895 (verbosity: 0) linux.amd64 (Oct 10 2019 20:44:32) release log
               16:39:38.429576 main     Log opened 2019-11-14T16:39:38.429527000Z
[   11.236915] 16:39:38.429663 main     OS Product: Linux
[   11.236999] 16:39:38.429749 main     OS Release: 5.0.0-36-generic
[   11.237061] 16:39:38.429812 main     OS Version: #39~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 11:09:50 UTC 2019
[   11.237103] 16:39:38.429844 main     Executable: /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-6.0.14/sbin/VBoxService
               16:39:38.429845 main     Process ID: 1270
               16:39:38.429845 main     Package type: LINUX_64BITS_GENERIC
[   11.238745] 16:39:38.431462 main     6.0.14 r133895 started. Verbose level = 0
[   11.240695] 16:39:38.433421 main vbglR3GuestCtrlDetectPeekGetCancelSupport: Supported (#1)
[   11.255000] vboxsf: g_fHostFeatures=0x8000000f g_fSfFeatures=0x1 g_uSfLastFunction=29
[   11.255046] vboxsf: Successfully loaded version 6.0.14
[   11.255079] vboxsf: Successfully loaded version 6.0.14 on 5.0.0-36-generic SMP mod_unload  (LINUX_VERSION_CODE=0x50015)
[   11.256702] 16:39:38.449408 automount vbsvcAutomounterMountIt: Successfully mounted 'Downloads' on '/media/sf_Downloads'
[   11.261137] 16:39:38.453291 automount vbsvcAutomounterMountIt: Successfully mounted 'Pictures' on '/media/sf_Pictures'

In the CentOS release 6.10 guest VM I can almost immediately observe the problem and failure running the dirtest.sh script:

[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ pwd
/media/sf_Pictures
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ ./dirtest.sh
Looping ... number 1
Looping ... number 2
Looping ... number 3
Looping ... number 4
Looping ... number 5
Looping ... number 6
Looping ... number 7
Looping ... number 8
Looping ... number 9
dir1  dir2  dir3  dir4	dir5  dir6  dir7  dir8	dir9  f1.txt  f2.txt f3.txt  f4.txt  f5.txt  f6.txt  f7.txt  f8.txt  f9.txt
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
TEST FAILED
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ ls dirtest
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rmdir dirtest
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ echo $?
0
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$

or like this, where the error is really sticking:

[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ ./dirtest.sh
Looping ... number 1
Looping ... number 2
Looping ... number 3
Looping ... number 4
Looping ... number 5
Looping ... number 6
Looping ... number 7
Looping ... number 8
Looping ... number 9
dir1  dir2  dir3  dir4	dir5  dir6  dir7  dir8	dir9  f1.txt  f2.txt f3.txt  f4.txt  f5.txt  f6.txt  f7.txt  f8.txt  f9.txt
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
TEST FAILED
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ ls -la dirtest
total 8
drwxrwx---. 1 root vboxsf 4096 Nov 15 09:18 .
drwxrwx---. 1 root vboxsf 4096 Nov 15 09:18 ..
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ fuser dirtest
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ pwd
/media/sf_Pictures
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$
 
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ stat dirtest
  File: `dirtest'
  Size: 4096      	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 16384  directory
Device: 15h/21d	Inode: 26          Links: 1
Access: (0770/drwxrwx---)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (  490/  vboxsf)
Access: 2019-11-15 09:18:55.164145200 +0100
Modify: 2019-11-15 09:18:55.164145200 +0100
Change: 2019-11-15 09:18:55.164145200 +0100
 
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rmdir dirtest
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ ls -la dirtest
ls: cannot access dirtest: No such file or directory

In the Ubuntu 18.04.03 guest VM the dirtest.sh script runs a lot longer and eventually fails with different failure modes:

fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$ ./dirtest.sh
[...]
Looping ... number 4
Looping ... number 5
Looping ... number 6
Looping ... number 7
Looping ... number 8
Looping ... number 9
dir1  dir3  dir5  dir7	dir9	f2.txt	f4.txt	f6.txt	f8.txt
dir2  dir4  dir6  dir8	f1.txt	f3.txt	f5.txt	f7.txt	f9.txt
Looping ... number 1
Looping ... number 2
Looping ... number 3
Looping ... number 4
Looping ... number 5
Looping ... number 6
Looping ... number 7
Looping ... number 8
Looping ... number 9
dir1  dir3  dir5  dir7	dir9	f2.txt	f4.txt	f6.txt	f8.txt
dir2  dir4  dir6  dir8	f1.txt	f3.txt	f5.txt	f7.txt	f9.txt
rm: cannot remove 'dirtest': Directory not empty
TEST FAILED
dir7
 
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$ ls dirtest
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$ rm -rf dirtest
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$
[...] 
dir1  dir3  dir5  dir7	dir9	f2.txt	f4.txt	f6.txt	f8.txt
dir2  dir4  dir6  dir8	f1.txt	f3.txt	f5.txt	f7.txt	f9.txt
Looping ... number 1
Looping ... number 2
Looping ... number 3
Looping ... number 4
Looping ... number 5
Looping ... number 6
Looping ... number 7
Looping ... number 8
Looping ... number 9
dir1  dir3  dir5  dir7	dir9	f2.txt	f4.txt	f6.txt	f8.txt
dir2  dir4  dir6  dir8	f1.txt	f3.txt	f5.txt	f7.txt	f9.txt
rm: cannot remove 'dirtest': Text file busy
TEST FAILED
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$ ls dirtest
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$ rm -rf dirtest
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$ ls
'Camera Roll'   desktop.ini   dirtest.sh  'Saved Pictures'
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$

To get the rm -rf * out of the picture, I converted the test script to only use rm and rmdir as appropriate, and we can observe the following failure scenarions now running script dirtest3.sh in the CentOS 6.10 guest VM:

1st Looping ... number 9
dir1  dir2  dir3  dir4	dir5  dir6  dir7  dir8	dir9  f1.txt  f2.txt f3.txt  f4.txt  f5.txt  f6.txt  f7.txt  f8.txt  f9.txt
2nd Looping ... number 1
2nd Looping ... number 2
2nd Looping ... number 3
2nd Looping ... number 4
2nd Looping ... number 5
2nd Looping ... number 6
2nd Looping ... number 7
2nd Looping ... number 8
2nd Looping ... number 9
1st Looping ... number 1
1st Looping ... number 2
1st Looping ... number 3
1st Looping ... number 4
1st Looping ... number 5
1st Looping ... number 6
1st Looping ... number 7
1st Looping ... number 8
1st Looping ... number 9
dir1  dir2  dir3  dir4	dir5  dir6  dir7  dir8	dir9  f1.txt  f2.txt f3.txt  f4.txt  f5.txt  f6.txt  f7.txt  f8.txt  f9.txt
2nd Looping ... number 1
2nd Looping ... number 2
2nd Looping ... number 3
2nd Looping ... number 4
2nd Looping ... number 5
2nd Looping ... number 6
2nd Looping ... number 7
2nd Looping ... number 8
2nd Looping ... number 9
mkdir: cannot create directory `dirtest': Protocol error
1st Looping ... number 1

or this one:

1st Looping ... number 1
1st Looping ... number 2
1st Looping ... number 3
1st Looping ... number 4
1st Looping ... number 5
1st Looping ... number 6
1st Looping ... number 7
1st Looping ... number 8
1st Looping ... number 9
dir1  dir2  dir3  dir4	dir5  dir6  dir7  dir8	dir9  f1.txt  f2.txt f3.txt  f4.txt  f5.txt  f6.txt  f7.txt  f8.txt  f9.txt
2nd Looping ... number 1
2nd Looping ... number 2
2nd Looping ... number 3
2nd Looping ... number 4
2nd Looping ... number 5
2nd Looping ... number 6
2nd Looping ... number 7
2nd Looping ... number 8
2nd Looping ... number 9
dir2
rmdir: failed to remove `dirtest': Directory not empty
TEST FAILED rm dirtest
dir2
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ ls -la dirtest
total 8
drwxrwx---. 1 root vboxsf 4096 Nov 15 13:39 .
drwxrwx---. 1 root vboxsf 4096 Nov 15 13:39 ..
 
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rm -rf dirtest
rm: cannot remove `dirtest': Text file busy
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ rmdir dirtest
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ echo $?
0
[fbatschu@localhost sf_Pictures]$ ll dirtest
ls: cannot access dirtest: No such file or directory

And on the Ubuntu 18.04.03 guest VM we also get slightely different failure symptoms running script dirtest3.sh:

1st mkdir/truncate Looping ... number 1
1st mkdir/truncate Looping ... number 2
1st mkdir/truncate Looping ... number 3
1st mkdir/truncate Looping ... number 4
1st mkdir/truncate Looping ... number 5
1st mkdir/truncate Looping ... number 6
1st mkdir/truncate Looping ... number 7
1st mkdir/truncate Looping ... number 8
1st mkdir/truncate Looping ... number 9
dir1  dir3  dir5  dir7	dir9	f2.txt	f4.txt	f6.txt	f8.txt
dir2  dir4  dir6  dir8	f1.txt	f3.txt	f5.txt	f7.txt	f9.txt
2nd rm/rmdir Looping ... number 1
2nd rm/rmdir Looping ... number 2
2nd rm/rmdir Looping ... number 3
2nd rm/rmdir Looping ... number 4
2nd rm/rmdir Looping ... number 5
2nd rm/rmdir Looping ... number 6
2nd rm/rmdir Looping ... number 7
2nd rm/rmdir Looping ... number 8
2nd rm/rmdir Looping ... number 9
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘dirtest’: Protocol error
TEST FAILED mkdir dirtest
'Camera Roll'   desktop.ini   dirtest   dirtest2.sh   dirtest3.sh dirtest.sh	'Saved Pictures'
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$ ls -la
total 14
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 4096 Nov 15 14:17  .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root   4096 Nov 14 17:26  ..
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    0 Feb 17  2019 'Camera Roll'
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf  504 Nov  1 14:37  desktop.ini
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf  716 Nov 15 13:00  dirtest2.sh
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf  959 Nov 15 14:17  dirtest3.sh
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf  389 Nov 15 09:40  dirtest.sh
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    0 Feb 17  2019 'Saved Pictures'
fbatschu@fbatschu-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Pictures$

by Frank Batschulat (Oracle), 5 years ago

Attachment:	dirtest.sh added

by Frank Batschulat (Oracle), 5 years ago

Attachment:	dirtest3.sh added

comment:3 by Frank Batschulat (Oracle), 5 years ago

Keywords:	rm rmdir shared folder vboxsf added
Summary:	rm -r not working correctly in shared folder → rm / rmdir not working correctly in shared folders

comment:4 by Frank Batschulat (Oracle), 5 years ago

comment:5 by Frank Batschulat (Oracle), 5 years ago

actually we find the first occurence of this bug in an older ticket from 9 years ago! see also #8761

comment:6 by Reiner Brodbeck, 5 years ago

I don't think it is related to #8761. That old ticket was for VirtualBox v4.x. For me the problem started with v6.x. In v5.x this was okay

comment:7 by desolat, 5 years ago

The same error pattern was indeed described for VirtualBox 4.x, e.g. here: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/2282. Maybe some regression now in 6.x? Seeing the error pattern as described in #19004 in all current 6.x versions. Any chance to get that sorted out soon?

Version 0, edited 5 years ago by desolat (next)

comment:8 by Frank Batschulat (Oracle), 4 years ago

comment:9 by Frank Batschulat (Oracle), 4 years ago

Owner:	Frank Batschulat (Oracle) removed
Status:	accepted → assigned

comment:10 by miff2000, 4 years ago

I can confirm, downgrade to latest 5.x guest additions release does work around the issue. Windows 10 Version 2004 (OS Build 19041.508) and Linux Mint VirtualBox VM.

In my case I am passing the vboxsf volume into a docker container and running composer install from in there. Works on v5.x but not v6.x guest additions.

5.x GA release downloaded from https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox

Last edited 4 years ago by miff2000 (previous) (diff)

comment:11 by csm10495, 4 years ago

Any chance that this issue could also affect trying to do unlinks and renames in certain cases? I'm using Nginx as a lancache (for steam, etc) and seem to be getting this if the space Nginx uses for the cache is a shared folder.

Is the workaround to change the guest additions on the host or the vm itself? Thanks

comment:12 by binary1230, 4 years ago

lots more tech info / kernel debugging info dropped into this ticket, which is potentially related to, or perhaps the same, as this ticket (unsure) https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8761

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