Upgrade to 4.13.0-11.12 in artful amd64 VM breaks display on wayland

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I've reproduced this. Attaching the journal from within the VM. There are some warnings from gnome in there, not sure what to make of most of them. These did jump out at me though.

Sep 21 10:55:00 ubuntu-test gnome-shell[917]: Failed to apply DRM plane transform 0: Invalid argument
Sep 21 10:55:00 ubuntu-test gnome-shell[917]: Failed to apply DRM plane transform 0: Invalid argument
Sep 21 10:55:00 ubuntu-test gnome-shell[917]: Failed to apply DRM plane transform 0: Invalid argument
Sep 21 10:55:00 ubuntu-test org.gnome.Shell.desktop[917]: Disabling glamor and dri3, EGL setup failed
Sep 21 10:55:00 ubuntu-test org.gnome.Shell.desktop[917]: Failed to initialize glamor, falling back to sw

So it seems to be the vboxvideo driver that was added to 4.13, if I blacklist that the gdm login screen appears. So a temporary workaround is to add a file named /etc/modprobe.d/vbox.conf with the contents 'blacklist vboxvideo'.

Just for information - as I run Xubuntu

I can get vbox to boot iso to a desktop - but once there mouse in virtual machine doesn't work.

dpkg -l *wayland* |grep ii
ii libwayland-bin 1.14.0-1
ii libwayland-client0:amd64 1.14.0-1
ii libwayland-cursor0:amd64 1.14.0-1
ii libwayland-dev:amd64 1.14.0-1
ii libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64 17.2.1-0ubuntu1
ii libwayland-server0:amd64 1.14.0-1
ii wayland-protocols 1.10-1

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 06:45:01AM -0000, Kev Bowring wrote:
> Just for information - as I run Xubuntu
>
> I can get vbox to boot iso to a desktop - but once there mouse in
> virtual machine doesn't work.

Does blacklisting vboxvideo inside the VM help, as described in comment
#4 (note you have to reboot after adding the vbox.conf file, I forgot to
mention that)? If not then would you please open a new bug and subscribe
me to the bug.

Is this a regression that just appeared with the 4.13 kernel update?

Thanks!

I also tested 4.14-rc1 and the same problem exists there.

I've pushed a commit to disable the vboxvideo staging driver for now.

Confirmed, blacklisting the vboxvideo driver fixes the issue.

If you blacklist the vboxvideo driver, you lose the full-screen and the hardware acceleration. You forgot to mention that. I recommend pressing RIGHT SHIFT and get into GRUB menu, choose kernel 4.12 and then install synaptic, uninstall kernel 4.13 and lock version 4.12 until this is resolved. This bug appeared today around here. It's a bug in the kernel.

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 01:08:57AM -0000, DjznBR wrote:
> If you blacklist the vboxvideo driver, you lose the full-screen and the
> hardware acceleration. You forgot to mention that. I recommend pressing
> RIGHT SHIFT and get into GRUB menu, choose kernel 4.12 and then install
> synaptic, uninstall kernel 4.13 and lock version 4.12 until this is
> resolved. This bug appeared today around here. It's a bug in the kernel.

The vboxvideo driver from the virtualbox add-ons seems to work fine,
it's only the driver in the kernel staging drivers that seems to have
problems. If you install the add-ons then remove the blacklist you'll
get full-screen and acceleration back.

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1718679

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.13.0-12.13

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linux (4.13.0-12.13) artful; urgency=low

  * linux: 4.13.0-12.13 -proposed tracker (LP: #1718980)

  * [Feature] SKX: Support crystall ridge / far / near memory indication in PEBS
    (LP: #1591813)
    - perf/x86: Move Nehalem PEBS code to flag
    - perf/x86: Fix data source decoding for Skylake

  * Upgrade to 4.13.0-11.12 in artful amd64 VM breaks display on wayland
    (LP: #1718679)
    - [Config] CONFIG_DRM_VBOXVIDEO=n

  * ipmmu-vmsa driver breaks arm64 boots (LP: #1718734)
    - [Config] Disable CONFIG_IPMMU_VMSA on arm64

  * Vlun resize request could fail with cxlflash driver (LP: #1713575)
    - scsi: cxlflash: Fix vlun resize failure in the shrink path

  * multipath -ll is not showing the disks which are actually multipath
    (LP: #1718397)
    - fs: aio: fix the increment of aio-nr and counting against aio-max-nr

  * [Feature] Crystal Ridge - BTT - Rework error clearing (LP: #1704350)
    - libnvdimm, btt: fix a missed NVDIMM_IO_ATOMIC case in the write path
    - libnvdimm, btt: refactor map entry operations with macros
    - libnvdimm, btt: ensure that flags were also unchanged during a map_read
    - libnvdimm, btt: cache sector_size in arena_info
    - libnvdimm: fix potential deadlock while clearing errors
    - libnvdimm, btt: rework error clearing

  * [Feature] Crystal Ridge - have 4k DAX faults use a common zero page
    (LP: #1704439)
    - mm: add vm_insert_mixed_mkwrite()
    - dax: relocate some dax functions
    - dax: use common 4k zero page for dax mmap reads
    - dax: remove DAX code from page_cache_tree_insert()
    - dax: move all DAX radix tree defs to fs/dax.c

  * [bug] 17.10: CDP test fail on platform of Purley-2S/4S/Neoncity,BDW-
    de/ep/ex, (LP: #1716843)
    - SAUCE: (no-up) x86/intel_rdt: Fix cdp info directory files issue

  * [featue] GPIO support for Denverton (LP: #1591829)
    - pinctrl: intel: Add Intel Denverton pin controller support

  * ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad inconsistently detected (Gigabyte P57W laptop)
    (LP: #1594214)
    - Input: i8042 - add Gigabyte P57 to the keyboard reset table

  * autopkgtest profile fails to build on armhf (LP: #1717920)
    - [Packaging] autopkgtest -- disable d-i when dropping flavours

  * Artful update to v4.13.3 stable release (LP: #1718412)
    - Revert "net: use lib/percpu_counter API for fragmentation mem accounting"
    - Revert "net: fix percpu memory leaks"
    - gianfar: Fix Tx flow control deactivation
    - vhost_net: correctly check tx avail during rx busy polling
    - ip6_gre: update mtu properly in ip6gre_err
    - udp: drop head states only when all skb references are gone
    - ipv6: fix memory leak with multiple tables during netns destruction
    - ipv6: fix typo in fib6_net_exit()
    - sctp: fix missing wake ups in some situations
    - tcp: fix a request socket leak
    - ip_tunnel: fix setting ttl and tos value in collect_md mode
    - f2fs: let fill_super handle roll-forward errors
    - f2fs: check hot_data for roll-forward recovery
    - x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
    - x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBA...