"sendkey ctrl-alt-delete" hangs console

[Alexandre Kandalintsev]

Hi!

I'm using the 12.04 amd64 with all latest updates. It turns out that entering "sendkey ctrl-alt-delete" just once hangs the console and then sendkey is not accepted anymore. However other commands like "system_reset" work.

So steps to reproduce are easy: launch kvm and try to reboot it through the "sendkey ctrl-alt-delete" twice. It won't reboot second time.
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ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111216)
KvmCmdLine:
 UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
 root 16968 16967 7 695946 355144 1 18:40 pts/0 00:00:22 kvm -curses -pidfile /var/tmp/kvm_usbstick1.pid -monitor unix:/var/tmp/kvm_usbstick1.mon,server,nowait -name usbstick1 -m 2G -smp 1 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-JetFlash_Transcend_4GB_DSJZOX73-0:0 -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=52:54:23:12:34:62 -net tap,script=/home/exe/repos/utilz/KVMC/ifup.sh -smp cores=6,threads=1,sockets=1,maxcpus=6
MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 780
Package: qemu-kvm 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu13
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic root=UUID=ea8aad76-0626-4aa5-8379-c70a9166c3a9 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 08/11/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.name: 0C27VV
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A01
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA05:bd08/11/2010:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlex780:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0C27VV:rvrA01:cvnDellInc.:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: OptiPlex 780
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. I'm afraid I can't reproduce it.

Can you tell us which release you are on, and the exact command line you used to start kvm?

Can you try running 'apport-collect 984771' to get apport to send us more information about your system?

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Sorry, I see you mentioned you're on 12.04. Can you tell me what the guest is running?

[Alexandre Kandalintsev (spam-messir)]

I run another 12.04 amd64, but this does not matter because if I send "sendkey ctrl-alt-delete" even in bios the situation is the same.

Are you able to reproduce the bug?

[Alexandre Kandalintsev (spam-messir)]

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[Alexandre Kandalintsev (spam-messir)]

I sent the apport report. The cmd is:

kvm -curses -pidfile /var/tmp/kvm_usbstick1.pid -monitor unix:/var/tmp/kvm_usbstick1.mon,server,nowait -name usbstick1 -m 2G -smp 1 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-JetFlash_Transcend_4GB_DSJZOX73-0:0 -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=52:54:23:12:34:62 -net tap,script=/home/exe/repos/utilz/KVMC/ifup.sh -smp cores=6,threads=1,sockets=1,maxcpus=6

(well, I hit the problem without -monitor).

[Alexandre Kandalintsev (spam-messir)]

Hm, I can reproduce just with "kvm -curses". Second time the kvm does not react on "sendkey ctrl-alt-delete"

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

> Are you able to reproduce the bug?

No.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

I can reproduce that the second 'sendkey ctrl-alt-delete' does nothing. However the monitor does not hang for me, so I can continue to control qemu through the monitor in other ways.

If you can confirm my description, I'll change the bug title to 'sendkey ctrl-alt-delete works only once' and mark it confirmed.

[Alexandre Kandalintsev (spam-messir)]

> However the monitor does not hang for me, so I can continue to control qemu through the monitor in other ways.

Please swith to the terminal (I assume you run "kvm -curses"). It won't work after you hit this bug. Yes, the monitor still works and responds to other commands.

The rest is fine, please mark as confirmed. It's a quite serious bug to me, I hit it while developing our cloud infrastructure :(

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Are you able to reproduce with upstream qemu (from git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git) ?

[Alexandre Kandalintsev (spam-messir)]

Boah... I'll try to check...

[Alexandre Kandalintsev (spam-messir)]

Seems the git version works correctly. At least I checked "./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -curses"

btw, I'm able to find numerous other bugreports for this issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643317

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks, then we'll need to find the upstream commit which fixed this.

[Alexandre Kandalintsev (spam-messir)]

It's this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=462611

Unfortunately I cannot test it right now. Could you try it?

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Actually, non-accelerated qemu does not reproduce this. So running the packaged kvm on a cloud instance without kvm acceleration won't reproduce it. THis also means that unless you did qemu -enable-kvm when testing upstream git, your result does NOT mean that the bug is fixed there.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Nope, definately fixed upstream.

@exe,

Note that the patch you linked to says it is a fix for a redhat-only patch, and is actually not applied in the qemu.git tree.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Ubuntu 12.04 is no longer supported.