Comment 0 for bug 615077

Binary package hint: qemu-kvm

I've got a few guests that are setup to use the local SDL window rather than VNC. With the last update to kvm it has broken in one of two ways (which one it decides to use seems random)

1) My whole console goes black and the music player I'm running stops
2) The guest fails to start with an error of 'failed to retrieve chardev info' from qemu

In /var/log/libvirt/qemu/fiddle2.log I see:

LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin XAUTHORITY=/home/dg/.Xauthority DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.11 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name fiddle2 -uuid fd06659e-3354-cb8e-71d9-cfeeff86e60f -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/fiddle2.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -boot dc -drive file=/media/more/isos/ubuntu-10.10-alpha3-desktop-amd64.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive file=/dev/main/fiddle2disk,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=54:52:00:32:5a:59,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -net tap,fd=43,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=serial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=serial0 -usb -sdl -vga cirrus -device ES1370,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
char device redirected to /dev/pts/6
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Could not initialize SDL - exiting

This was working fine yesterday prior to the kvm 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu16+0.12.4+noroms+0ubuntu8 upgrade (or one of the other packages that landed at the same time).

Dave

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: qemu-kvm 0.12.4+noroms-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-14.20-generic 2.6.35
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: f2d10bd9f943a85b486a282e7840a570
CheckboxSystem: 0531969bcfd4f03af7405c98dc94a948
Date: Sun Aug 8 18:58:30 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
KvmCmdLine: Error: command ['ps', '-C', 'kvm', '-F'] failed with exit code 1: UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-14-generic root=UUID=d8314979-8ace-401c-88df-728ad6b89cb5 ro ignore_loglevel netconsole=4444@192.168.66.33/eth0,514@192.168.66.25/00:a0:d1:63:68:a6 crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M nointremap
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
dmi.bios.date: 09/10/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P1.50
dmi.board.name: P55M Pro
dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.50:bd09/10/2009:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnP55MPro:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.