Unity doesn't run in VirtualBox: compiz crashed with SIGABRT in __kernel_vsyscall()

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Binary package hint: unity

Unity doesn't start on VirtualBox (with guest additions) while it used to.
Classic Desktop with compiz works find.

What's odd is that in the guest window I see only the background, but in the preview window of VirtualBox I see the desktop and that nautilus is running (no panel or launcher though)

Keyboard and mouse events are received and I can blindly interact with the desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.6.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.35-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Fri Mar 18 16:02:57 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox-ose-guest, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-7-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox-ose-guest, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-5-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox-ose-guest, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-4-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox-ose-guest, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-6-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter [80ee:beef] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110221)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110221)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110221)
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
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-7-generic root=UUID=cc1af83d-2bce-4f2c-a4f9-926b07d071e8 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.35-generic 2.6.38
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.35-generic 2.6.38
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4-0ubuntu7
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu5

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

.xsession-errors when Unity doesn't start.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Hey Jean, can you go to full screen in the natty guest? After last nights update I cant seem to use the guest additions in natty at all. That includes the 3D that is used to run unity.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Duplicate of bug 738330. Marking.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

this is not a duplicate, guest additions builds fine, and I got this problem even before the X ABI change.
Seemless mode and fullscreen works fine in classic desktop + compiz, only Unity doesn't start.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

Jean-Baptiste, can you get a trace of unity crashing or anything?

[Michael Thayer (michael-thayer)]

Hope that is of some interest.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Alex, looks like the same trace than Michael but with the symbols.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

it seems to be a problem with nux.

[IKT (ikt)]

o hai

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nux/+bug/739397

[Michael Thayer (michael-thayer)]

The SIGABRT is just the result of the assertion when the memory allocation fails. I would say that frames 11/12 of the stack trace is closer to the problem, where it tries to allocate a texture surface with a width of (in my trace) 1279729667.

[Michael Thayer (michael-thayer)]

Looking at Jean-Baptiste's more detailed trace I see that width in the geo.width local variable in frame 14 (PanelMenuView::Refresh).

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

I don't know why, but using bzr master of unity and nux (compiled by hand) the problem seems to be solved.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

It looks like today's update fixed it.
Can anybody else confirm then we can safely set this bug to fix released ?

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Well, not always actually. Sometimes I still get the same error when running compiz.

I've still the issue that doesn't allow me to adjust the guest resolution by resizing the window or to share the clipboard (but this is related to virtualbox-ose).

[IKT (ikt)]

@Jean-Baptiste Lallement

Yeah it looks like the recent updates have fixed it!

hurray!

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

Unity (actually compiz) still won't work in virtualbox for me. It just restarts over and over, using 100% CPU. I am using virtualbox 4.0.4 and the matching guest utils from the repo.

When running compiz from a terminal I see this:

OpenGL Error: Out of memory trying to allocate 1013234308 bytes

Yeah, that's nearly 1GB of ram...

Not sure if this is the same bug, but I suspect it is.

[HACK3R (provid3r-2009)]

This is my error: Unity doesn't run in VirtualBox: compiz crashed with SIGABRT in __kernel_vsyscall() in Linux 11.04 Alpha 3 and my generated raport is this:

Unity doesn't start on VirtualBox (with guest additions) while it used to.
Classic Desktop with compiz works find.

What's odd is that in the guest window I see only the background, but in the preview window of VirtualBox I see the desktop and that nautilus is running (no panel or launcher though)

Keyboard and mouse events are received and I can blindly interact with the desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.6.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.35-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Fri Mar 18 16:02:57 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox-ose-guest, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-7-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox-ose-guest, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-5-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox-ose-guest, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-4-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox-ose-guest, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-6-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter [80ee:beef] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110221)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110221)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110221)
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
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-7-generic root=UUID=cc1af83d-2bce-4f2c-a4f9-926b07d071e8 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.35-generic 2.6.38
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.35-generic 2.6.38
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4-0ubuntu7
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu5

What should I do...my video card is ASUS ATI Radeon AX550 Extreme.....

[Jonathan (jonathanmotes-gmail)]

For me the problem is the vboxvideo module not loading. See http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=40211

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

@jonathan the problem you're referring to was due to the ABI break which is different from the issue reported here (comment #5) the problem of unity not starting in Unity is fixed and I'm closing this report.