Mouse Scroll Wheel not working in spice vm guests

[Harry Coin]

I'm running Precise in various qemu-kvm virtual machines with Spice. The ScrollWheel stops working in the virtual machine as soon the spice-vdagent gets started.   After killing the spice-vdagent process the Scroll Wheel works again.
Seems to be an evdev Bug, see solved Fedora Bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=805902

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Wed Apr 2 22:55:21 2014
DistUpgraded: 2013-10-21 18:32:59,232 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: saucy
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 Red Hat, Inc. Device [1b36:0100] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc Device [1af4:1100]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-26 (311 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
LightdmGreeterLog:
 ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:25761): WARNING **: Failed to open sessions directory: Error opening directory '/usr/share/lightdm/remote-sessions': No such file or directory

 ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:25761): WARNING **: Failed to load user image: Failed to open file '/home/harry/.face': No such file or directory
Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Bochs Bochs
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-18-generic root=UUID=adda9701-5de5-45dd-9068-ce97f8259354 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-21 (163 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 01/01/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Bochs
dmi.bios.version: Bochs
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Bochs
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnBochs:bvrBochs:bd01/01/2011:svnBochs:pnBochs:pvr:cvnBochs:ct1:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Bochs
dmi.sys.vendor: Bochs
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.46-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.2.1-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.2.1-1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.14.5-1ubuntu2~saucy1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu10
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.904-0ubuntu2.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.9-2ubuntu1
xserver.bootTime: Fri Mar 28 12:35:38 2014
xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
xserver.devices:
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6
 input AT Translated Set 2 keyboard KEYBOARD, id 7
 input ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse MOUSE, id 8
 input spice vdagent tablet TOUCHSCREEN, id 9
xserver.errors:
 Failed to load module "evdec" (module does not exist, 0)
 Failed to load module "evdec" (module does not exist, 0)
 No input driver matching `evdec'
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 0
 vendor QXL
xserver.version: 2:1.14.5-1ubuntu2~saucy1

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Harry Coin, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please just make a comment to this.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

[Harry Coin (hcoin)]

As I use xubuntu, (standard ubuntu is way too 'heavy' for our purpose)
is there a version from that world you can suggest? Whatever the
regular ubuntu results it won't help me.

On 04/03/2014 08:50 PM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
> Harry Coin, could you please test for this with the latest development
> release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .
>
> If it remains an issue, could you please just make a comment to this.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
>
> Helpful bug reporting tips:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> -
> - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039523
> -
> -
> - Im runnning Precise in various qemu-kvm virtual machines with Spice.
> -
> - The ScrollWheel stops working in the virtual machine as soon the spice-vdagent gets started.
> - After killing the spice-vdagent process the Scroll Wheel works again.
> - Seems to be an evdev Bug, see solved Fedora Bug:
> -
> - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=805902
> - Michal Suchanek / Harry Coin, thank you for your comment. So your hardware and problem may be tracked, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal:
> - ubuntu-bug xorg
> + I'm running Precise in various qemu-kvm virtual machines with Spice. The ScrollWheel stops working in the virtual machine as soon the spice-vdagent gets started. After killing the spice-vdagent process the Scroll Wheel works again.
> + Seems to be an evdev Bug, see solved Fedora Bug:
> + https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=805902
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
> Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu6
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4
> Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
> Architecture: amd64
> CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
> CompositorRunning: None
> Date: Wed Apr 2 22:55:21 2014
> DistUpgraded: 2013-10-21 18:32:59,232 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
> DistroCodename: saucy
> DistroVariant: ubuntu
> ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
> GraphicsCard:
> - Red Hat, Inc. Device [1b36:0100] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> - Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc Device [1af4:1100]
> + Red Hat, Inc. Device [1b36:0100] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> + Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc Device [1af4:1100]
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-26 (311 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
> LightdmGreeterLog:
> - ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:25761): WARNING **: Failed to open sessions directory: Error opening directory '/usr/share/lightdm/remote-sessions': No such file or directory
> -
> - ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:25761): WARNING **: Failed to load user image: Failed to open file '/home/harry/.face': No such file or directory
> + ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:25761): WARNING **: Failed to open sessions directory: Error opening directory '/usr/share/lightdm/remote-sessions': No such file or directory
> +
> + ** (lightdm-gtk-gr...

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Harry Coin, please see http://releases.ubuntu.com/ .

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 13.10 (saucy) reached end-of-life on July 17, 2014.

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