other programs don't work right after installing guest machine drives

[Edward]

After installing ubuntu server and attempting to also install an ubuntu client using virt-manager other things on ubuntu don't work right. The volume indicator doesn't work. Firefox 6 menus don't work most of the time (not sure if this is really a firefox issue). Gnome Alsamixer doesn't keep the settings I give it. Maybe my hardware is not good enough for kvm, and that would solve it, but kvm isn't running at the same time as i am using these other things.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: kvm 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu16+0.12.5+noroms+0ubuntu7.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.54-generic 2.6.35.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 27 12:29:04 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
KvmCmdLine: Error: command ['ps', '-C', 'kvm', '-F'] failed with exit code 1: UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-30-generic root=UUID=8c7355ad-0528-4849-a977-3afa91b8c307 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
dmi.bios.date: 09/16/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F2
dmi.board.name: C51-MCP51
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF2:bd09/16/2008:svn:pn:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnC51-MCP51:rvrx.x:cvn:ct3:cvr:

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. Could you please describe your environment a bit more? You said 'After installing ubuntu server and attempting to also install an ubuntu client using virt-manager' - did you install both of those as kvm VMs? And did you have no sound issues before you created these VMs? Which releases are you using for the VMs?

Can you give us the xml definition of the VMS? (virsh list to get the VM names, then 'virsh dumpxml nameX' to dump the definitions)

If kvm did something to confuse your host's audio daemon, then restarting it may fix it. Does rebooting the host fix your problem?

[Edward (edwardtisdale-2004)]

On 07/27/2011 02:09 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this bug. Could you please describe your
> environment a bit more? You said 'After installing ubuntu server and
> attempting to also install an ubuntu client using virt-manager' -

> did
> you install both of those as kvm VMs? Yes, but I also have VirtualBox installed with Windows 2000 loaded on it

> And did you have no sound issues
> before you created these VMs? I did once previously, not sure what caused it. I will try to remember. Similarly that time, that indicator applet showed a hollow volume icon and no volume control when clicking on it. This time the icon is solid and shown as muted and no volume control when clicking on it.

> Which releases are you using for the VMs? 10.10 32bit and 10.10 server 32bit.
>
> Can you give us the xml definition of the VMS? (virsh list to get the
> VM names, then 'virsh dumpxml nameX' to dump the definitions)
attached. I will also try and locate this bug on launchpad where I
submitted it and add them as an attachment.
> If kvm did something to confuse your host's audio daemon, then
> restarting it may fix it. Does rebooting the host fix your problem?
Doesn't help. I also just tried reinstalling Gnome. I may also try KVM.
>
> ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks, Edward. Please go ahead and run

    sudo ubuntu-bug 817190

to attach audio debugging info to this bug.

[Edward (edwardtisdale-2004)]

know what? I got impatient, so first I tried recompiling the kernel, then when that didn't work I just upgraded to 11.04 and right now I am actually in kde, reinstalling gnome. I'm not sure if it will still help this cause but once gnome is reinstalled, I'll try logging into it and running the bug as you say. Sorry.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

@Edward,

is this bug still affecting you?