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Virtualbox 4.1 (vboxdrv) Blocks Machine Suspend

Bug #814323 reported by Daniel Lombraña González on 2011-07-21

This bug affects 15 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	virtualbox (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

With the kernel version 2.6.32-32 the laptop suspends and resumes without problems. With the last update to 2.6.32-33 the laptop does not suspend. It is even worst, because the laptop screen goes black and then a few seconds later the fan starts blowing and does not stop until you power off the computer by pressing the power button several seconds.

The previous version works perfectly well, so the update introduced a bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-33-generic 2.6.32-33.70
Regression: Yes
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-33.70-generic 2.6.32.41+drm33.18
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-33-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC262 Analog [ALC262 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: teleyinex 2001 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: teleyinex 2001 F...m pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No existe el fichero o el directorio
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xdaa20000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC262'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0262,104d2f00,00100302 HDA:14f12c06,104d1700,00100000'
   Controls : 17
   Simple ctrls : 9
Date: Fri Jul 22 00:09:28 2011
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=13c1b7bc-0c13-42ef-9acc-7cfb3b2707bb
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Sony Corporation VGN-Z11MN_B
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-33-generic root=UUID=6318bb8c-fcb5-4f5a-8d39-0ccb1ed4e9fd ro acpi_osi="!Windows 2006" quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=es_ES:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34.7
SourcePackage: linux
dmi.bios.date: 07/17/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE
dmi.bios.version: R2169M3
dmi.board.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.board.name: VAIO
dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnINSYDE:bvrR2169M3:bd07/17/2009:svnSonyCorporation:pnVGN-Z11MN_B:pvrJ003CY1V:rvnSonyCorporation:rnVAIO:rvrN/A:cvnSonyCorporation:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: VGN-Z11MN_B
dmi.product.version: J003CY1V
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation

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Daniel Lombraña González (teleyinex) wrote on 2011-07-21:

AlsaDevices.txt Edit (517 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AplayDevices.txt Edit (273 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (53.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Amixer.values.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt Edit (10.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.1.txt Edit (146 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (315 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (14.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (658 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciMultimedia.txt Edit (598 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (240 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (124.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (275.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (744.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Brad Figg (brad-figg) on 2011-07-21

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Daniel Lombraña González (teleyinex) on 2011-07-21

description:

updated

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Umang Varma (umang) wrote on 2011-07-22:

I can confirm that I am affect by exactly the same issue.

The hard disk seems to switch off properly, because I can hear the click sound and when I force the laptop to power off, I don't hear the scratching sound that I do when (on the rare occasions) I have to force my computer to shutdown while its running.

The screen first turns black then goes off. However, the fan keeps blowing and there seems to be no way to get the laptop to resume. Using the previous kernel (2.6.32-32-generic) fixes this issue for me. Clearly this is some sort of regression.

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icyfeet (icyfeet) wrote on 2011-07-23:

I confirm it too.
Same behaviour on my machine.

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Umang Varma (umang) wrote on 2011-07-25:

I am now affected by this problem on 2.6.32-32-generic also. I think I have some idea as to what might be causing this:

I had installed VirtualBox when I was using 32-33. I imagine that it did something to the kernel to be able to do the functions of a Host OS on my laptop. Now, after I switched back to the 32-32, VirtualBox told me today that there were errors and I should fixed them by running:

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Now, I have the same issue I did with 32-33 with the 32-32 kernel also. So I believe that this might be the problem.

$ apt-cache policy virtualbox-4.1
virtualbox-4.1:
  Installed: 4.1.0-73009~Ubuntu~lucid
  Candidate: 4.1.0-73009~Ubuntu~lucid
  Version table:
*** 4.1.0-73009~Ubuntu~lucid 0
        500 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/ lucid/contrib Packages

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icyfeet (icyfeet) wrote on 2011-07-26:

I can confirm it is connected with virtualbox.

Here is a bugreport with a workaround that worked for me:

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9260

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icyfeet (icyfeet) wrote on 2011-07-26:

Addition:

I do not know what will happen to the virtual machine when unloading the modules while the machine is running!!

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Joe Burgess (joemburgess) wrote on 2011-07-26:

Daniel and Umang,

Do you two also have virtualbox installed? I'm trying to figure out if icyfeet's issue is the same issue as yours.

thanks

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Daniel Lombraña González (teleyinex) wrote on 2011-07-26:

Dear Joe,

Yes I also have VirtualBox 4.1 and it seems like this software is the problem. I will unload the modules and test if the problem is related to VirtualBox too.

Regards,

Daniel

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2011-07-26:

I also had this problem, but with vmware-player installed (VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.i386.bundle). I removed it and now suspend works again.

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2011-07-26:

#10

Something that might be related or not, but that I found out also because of vmware, is that "modprobe -r parport_pc" or "rmmod parport_pc" hang here in D state. The vmware initscript did that, that's how I found out.

FWIW I'm on a thinkpad T61.

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2011-07-26:

#11

Oh, and I'm on lucid 2.6.32-33-generic-pae #70 i686.

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2011-07-26:

#12

After removing vmware player, rmmod parport_pc started working again for me, so for now I'm blaming vmware.

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Daniel Lombraña González (teleyinex) wrote on 2011-07-26:

#13

Hi again,

I have removed the following modules: vboxpci, vboxnetadp, vboxnetflt and vboxdrv and then click Suspend. This time suspend and resume worked perfectly well, so I guess that the problem is related to this modules.

Should we contact Oracle and warn them about this issue?

Regards,

Daniel

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Joe Burgess (joemburgess) wrote on 2011-07-26:

#14

Daniel,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ . However, note you can only test Suspend, not Hibernate, when using a LiveCD. If the issue remains, run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 814323

Also, please be sure to take a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspendHibernateResume . If you can provide any additional information outlined there it would be much appreciated.

Additionally, if you could try to reproduce this with the upstream mainline kernel that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Thanks in advance.

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Joe Burgess (joemburgess) wrote on 2011-07-26:

#15

Andreas,

you are using vmware player correct? Daniel and icyfeet are using virtualbox, so while your problem seems related, I don't think it's the same problem. Could you open a separate bug for the vmware player related issue?

Sadly, I can't find any open bug tracker for vmware player so I couldn't report anything there but I told the virtualbox bug report about this bug report.

Thanks.

Joe Burgess (joemburgess) on 2011-07-26

summary:

- The laptop does not suspend anymore
+ Virtualbox 4.1 (vboxdrv) Blocks Machine Suspend

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Alexander Karlstad (alexander.karlstad) wrote on 2011-07-26:

#16

Same problem here on my Thinkpad Edge 13. The workaround in the Virtualbox' bug ticket[1] worked for me.

[1]: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9260

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2011-07-27:

#17

Joe, I opened bug #816963 for the same issue but with vmware-player.

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Joe Burgess (joemburgess) wrote on 2011-07-27:

#18

Thanks Andreas.

Everony else that has this bug though. This has been forwarded to upstream you can track it and make comments at: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9260

Andy Whitcroft (apw) on 2011-07-27

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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akhalfan (akhalfan) wrote on 2011-07-27:

#19

workaround: before suspending, unload the vboxdrv module and suspend will work

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Daniel Lombraña González (teleyinex) wrote on 2011-07-28:

#20

Yes, the easiest way to solve the problem for now is to run:

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv stop

Before you suspend. Another option is what people have described in the messages about black-listing VBox modules when suspending the machine.

Eugene San (eugenesan) on 2011-07-30

affects:	linux (Ubuntu) → virtualbox (Ubuntu)
Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Eugene San (eugenesan) wrote on 2011-07-30:

#21

vboxdrv-4.1.0-shutdown-suspend-fix Edit (747 bytes, text/plain)

Solution provided in upstream.

Attaching fixing patch:

sudo -i
service vboxdrv stop
wget -O /tmp/vboxhost-fix-panic.patch http:/launchpad.net/..../vboxhost-fix-panic.patch
cd /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxhost
patch -p1 < /tmp/vboxhost-fix-panic.patch
dkms remove -m vboxhost -v 4.1.0 --all
dkms add -m vboxhost -v 4.1.0
dkms build -m vboxhost -v 4.1.0
dkms install -m vboxhost -v 4.1.0
service vboxdrv start

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2011-07-30

tags:

added: patch

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Daniel Lombraña González (teleyinex) wrote on 2011-08-01:

#22

Hi everyone,

I have successfully tested the patch!! Thanks a lot Eugene!!! It works like a charm!! If you need something else to check, let me know.

Regards,

Daniel

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lotharmat (matdcooke) wrote on 2011-08-02:

#23

That patch works a treat! - Many thanks!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-08-10:

#24

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 4.1.0-dfsg-2ubuntu1

---------------
virtualbox (4.1.0-dfsg-2ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - Add Apport hook.
      - debian/virtualbox.files/source_virtualbox.py
      - debian/virtualbox.install
    - Drop *-source packages.
    - Add vboxguest modalias the to the package control field.

virtualbox (4.1.0-dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Install vboxpci module in virtualbox-modules packages, thanks to
    YOSHINO Yoshihito. (Closes: #637177)
  * Add 36-fix-kernel-panic-suspend.patch from upstream SVN to fix a kernel
    panic on suspend caused by the vboxdrv module.
    (Closes: #637226; LP: #814323)

virtualbox (4.1.0-dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Use VBOX_BUILD_PUBLISHER instead of VBOX_VERSION_STRING to set the
    version suffix.
  * Refresh patches.
  * Drop 22-no-static-libstdcpp.patch and 31-multiarch-dri-path.patch,
    applied upstream.
  * Add 34-fix-vboxpci-build.patch to fix a VBoxPCI build failure.
  * Add vboxpci kernel module to virtualbox-dkms and virtualbox-source.
  * Update package names in 04-vboxdrv-references.patch.
  * Add 35-libvdeplug-soname.patch to fix VDE networking. (Closes: #636335)
  * Drop broken "alloc" symlink in virtualbox-dkms and virtualbox-source.
-- Felix Geyer <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:34:57 +0200

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Jullian Gafar (jullian-gafar) wrote on 2011-09-22:

#25

My VirtualBox is already on 4.1.2 and this issue is still a problem.

I reinstalled my system a couple of days ago with Natty 1104-64bit. My kernel is 2.6.38-11-generic amd64.

When I first installed it, suspend works fine, but after I reinstalled all of the softwares that I am using, suspend does not work anymore and I end up with issues same as above.

So, if it is still vboxdrv causing the issue, then the above should not be closed.