virtualbox freeze with kernel 2.6.22

Bug #140056 reported by ktulu77
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
William F Pearson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

Virtualbox freeze completly my computer when I try to start WinXP pro with my new kernel 2.6.22 (I've just dist-upgraded to gutsy). All that I can do is just doing a hard reset.
If I start my computer with the 2.6.20 kernel, all is ok, it works very well !
I've tried with the virtualbox-ose package from gutsy repository and with the feisty package available on the virtualbox website, it is exactly the same problem.
I'm using virtualbox 1.5

I have that in my syslog before crashing, I don't know if it can help :

Sep 17 08:20:51 theo-desktop kernel: [ 114.765925] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -253941859 ns)
Sep 17 08:20:51 theo-desktop /usr/sbin/cron[5625]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Sep 17 08:20:51 theo-desktop /usr/sbin/cron[5626]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Sep 17 08:20:51 theo-desktop /usr/sbin/cron[5626]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
Sep 17 08:28:39 theo-desktop kernel: [ 382.925935] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
Sep 17 08:28:39 theo-desktop kernel: [ 382.925941] vboxdrv: Successfully done.
Sep 17 08:36:38 theo-desktop kernel: [ 679.132097] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
Sep 17 08:36:38 theo-desktop kernel: [ 679.132102] vboxdrv: Successfully done.

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William F Pearson (wfpearson) wrote :

Are you running the ubuntu packaged version for Gutsy? If not please uninstall VirtualBox and reinstall it on Gutsy using these steps:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox#head-c070902468bd6a5d75c60a2a33b7d8923fffeb24

You won't loose your virtual machines if they are stored in your home directory. Report back and let us know if this fixed your problem.

Changed in virtualbox-ose:
status: New → Incomplete
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ktulu77 (ktulu-highwaytoacdc) wrote :

I have just done a clean installation of gutsy with the beta CD and all is ok !

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William F Pearson (wfpearson) wrote :

There was probably an old kernel module conflict with the installation of the source tarball from innotek. Uninstalling any other installations of Virtualbox and installing the repo version fixed the issue.

Changed in virtualbox-ose:
assignee: nobody → wfpearson
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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