VirtualBox crashed with Nouveau driver

[Ray Cole]

VirtualBox running a Windows 8.1 64-bit guest with 3D enabled crashed. syslog appears to show a crash in nouveau.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: linux-image-3.13.0-36-generic 3.13.0-36.63
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 25 16:43:56 2014
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=b170f305-49ff-4e37-b417-1a977a8dc002
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-06 (141 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" - Release amd64 20140530
IwConfig:
 vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.

 lo no wireless extensions.
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA790GP-UD4H
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-36-generic root=UUID=17bb2d5d-cd17-4159-af64-0a4f0081ace1 ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash crashkernel=384M-:128M vt.handoff=7
PulseList:
 Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied
 No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.13.0-36-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.13.0-36-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.127.4
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/08/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F7c
dmi.board.name: GA-MA790GP-UD4H
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF7c:bd07/08/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-MA790GP-UD4H:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-MA790GP-UD4H:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-MA790GP-UD4H
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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[penalvch (penalvch)]

Not a * (Ubuntu) issue/release. -> linuxmint

[Michael Webster (miketwebster)]

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[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

@Ray, hi.

It is reproducible? Or it just happened once?

Also, can you pinpoint the message in syslog which makes you believe the crash happened in Nouveau? And describe what you were doing at the time when it crashed.

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

[ 145.175734] VBoxCrWinCmd[3045]: segfault at 7f7800000000 ip 00007f615168b503 sp 00007f61524ffae0 error 4 in libdrm_nouveau.so.2.0.0[7f6151689000+5000]

[Ray Cole (the-other-ray-cole)]

It is reproducible. I switched back to the nVidia-provided driver, but can go back to Nouveau if to reproduce it again if needed. It happens when I leave VirtualBox overnight with my Windows 8.1 64-bit guest running. I _think_ it happens when the Windows guest decides to blank the screen, but I'm not 100% sure as I've always been asleep when it happens...

Along with the above message regarding libdrm_nouveau.so.2.0, the messages below from nouveau were also what led me to believe it to be a nouveau problem, although clearly it could be something VirtualBox is messing up when calling nouveau that causes the trap.

Oct 25 16:36:34 rlinux kernel: [ 138.214092] nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] TRAP_M2MF IN
Oct 25 16:36:34 rlinux kernel: [ 138.214122] nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] TRAP_M2MF 00320251 203cbf80 00000000 04000432
Oct 25 16:36:34 rlinux kernel: [ 138.214130] nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] TRAP
Oct 25 16:36:34 rlinux kernel: [ 138.214143] nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] ch 6 [0x003f800000 VBoxCrWinCmd[3045]] subc 5 class 0x5039 mthd 0x0328 data 0x00000000
Oct 25 16:36:34 rlinux kernel: [ 138.214162] nouveau E[ PFB][0000:01:00.0] trapped read at 0x0020377000 on channel 0x0003f800 [VBoxCrWinCmd[3045]] PGRAPH/DISPATCH/M2M_IN reason: PAGE_NOT_PRESENT
Oct 25 16:36:41 rlinux kernel: [ 145.175686] nouveau E[VBoxCrWinCmd[3045]] push 0 buffer not in list
Oct 25 16:36:41 rlinux kernel: [ 145.175734] VBoxCrWinCmd[3045]: segfault at 7f7800000000 ip 00007f615168b503 sp 00007f61524ffae0 error 4 in libdrm_nouveau.so.2.0.0[7f6151689000+5000]

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

How did you install Virtualbox? Is it virtualbox-nonfree? Or did you get it from the Virtualbox website? Or is it the Ubuntu package?

Can you verify the version of Virtualbox you're running?

[Ray Cole (the-other-ray-cole)]

I installed it by downloading virtualbox-4.3_4.3.18-96516~Ubuntu~raring_amd64.deb from virtualbox.org. I also have the extension pack installed. I've been running VirtualBox from there (obviously different versions) for several years. The video driver from nVidia works a little better, though I do keep 3D disabled for my VM because if I have 3D enabled with the nVidia driver iTunes will not let me into the store (and other 'odd' behavior). But since this is about Nouveau I won't side-track you with more details on that :-)

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

Hi,

This looks like an upstream issue then.

Some info on 3D support in Virtualbox: it will only work with mesa 10.1.0. If you upgraded to 10.1.3 you need to get the guest-additions version 4.3.18 (they're at 4.3.10 in Qiana/Trusty).

[Ray Cole (the-other-ray-cole)]

The guest additions match the version of VirtualBox installed (4.3.18).