at boot get piix4_smbus error, Ubuntu installed in VirtualBox

[Pol_]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

at very first live CD boot I get a "piix4_smbus [...] smbus have address unintialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr" error.
Then after the first reboot it disappears.

Ubuntu 10.10 is the beta made available around August the 31st. It is installed in a VIrtual Box 3.2.6 OSE r63112 (latest from PPA at that time).

Only non-conventional Guest installation I did was to disable the VT-x/AMD-V functionality.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: debian-installer (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 19 15:32:55 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
MemoryUsage:
 total used free shared buffers cached
 Mem: 1025720 395568 630152 0 33580 196272
 -/+ buffers/cache: 165716 860004
 Swap: 305148 0 305148
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic root=UUID=7f35e3bf-3eae-4290-a029-0790ec7ef8bc ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: debian-installer
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:
dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
dmi.product.version: 1.2
dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH

[Pol_ (paulemile-purnelle)]

update : I still have the error on any boot. It is just faster to disappear from screen.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Pol_,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Pol_ (paulemile-purnelle)]

I patched with the latest mainline build (September 29th) and still have the issue. I even have 3 more errors showing on screen at start-up now. Screen-shot to follow

[Pol_ (paulemile-purnelle)]

here is the version I used for the screen-shot

pol@pol-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux pol-desktop 2.6.36-020636rc6-generic #201009291126 SMP Wed Sep 29 12:42:36 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

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[RuiDC (ruidc)]

problem hasn't gone away

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Verified in Trusty in live environment via Trusty. The message is largely innocuous, as I've seen this in every version of VirtualBox available in a Ubuntu host, with every version of Ubuntu as a guest since Maverick. It would be nice if the message either wouldn't appear at all during boot, or whatever it's complaining about is dealt with.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04

apt-cache policy virtualbox
virtualbox:
  Installed: 4.2.16-dfsg-3ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4.2.16-dfsg-3ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.16-dfsg-3ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status