Fedora F34 System Crash while using Thunderbird

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E Net Arch
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Fedora F34 System Crash while using Thunderbird

Post by E Net Arch »

An existing VM running Fedora 32 containing Thunderbird and Chrome was migrated from a Fedora 32 host to a Fedora 34 host due to something failing in the host's boot process.
3 new drives were installed into the host, and the host was rebuilt from scratch.

The VM started nominally, and Thunderbird may start nominally, but at some point it would cause the whole system to crash.
Both OS's host and guest reported that there was no data in the log to describe what happened. Lack of frames.
Thinking that the VM image got touched, I built a new VM image from scratch.
This VM exhibited the same issue.
Since the VMs were on the hardware managed mirrored drives, I moved it to the boot drive.
There was no change, it continued to exhibit the same issue.
I then moved the VM to my server .. same mother board, cpu, memory, mirrored hard drives .. just running Fedora 28 server. It works perfectly.

Host .. Fedora 34, with boot 2 TB hard drive and data on hardware raid 0 mirrored drives
Guest .. Fedora 30 then 34 with Thunderbird and attached 2nd vdi

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.
-->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.virtualbox.org/" version="1.17-linux">
<Machine uuid="{d3645523-b542-4b21-9d41-a2b31aa4a6b6}" name="Fedora Email" OSType="Fedora_64" snapshotFolder="Snapshots" lastStateChange="2021-05-14T15:15:48Z">
<MediaRegistry>
<HardDisks>
<HardDisk uuid="{5e98a9f0-ca4d-4aaf-9fad-55cf97e6f922}" location="Fedora Email.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>
<HardDisk uuid="{c79fbcd8-be03-4976-822c-00e2db93aa42}" location="/Data/Data/[username]/VirtualBox VMs/New group/New group/Fedora Email 2 on Mirror/Fedora Email_1.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>
</HardDisks>
<DVDImages>
<Image uuid="{ebadc5d8-78f0-4bd5-afa8-785ba6494184}" location="/home/[username]/Downloads/Fedora-MATE_Compiz-Live-x86_64-28-1.1.iso"/>
</DVDImages>
</MediaRegistry>
<ExtraData>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastCloseAction" value="PowerOff"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastGuestSizeHint" value="815,661"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastNormalWindowPosition" value="313,700,800,644"/>
</ExtraData>
<Hardware>
<CPU count="2">
<PAE enabled="false"/>
<LongMode enabled="true"/>
<X2APIC enabled="true"/>
<HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="false"/>
</CPU>
<Memory RAMSize="4096"/>
<HID Pointing="USBTablet"/>
<Display controller="VMSVGA" VRAMSize="33" accelerate3D="true"/>
<VideoCapture screens="1" options="ac_enabled=false" file="." fps="25"/>
<BIOS>
<IOAPIC enabled="true"/>
</BIOS>
<USB>
<Controllers>
<Controller name="OHCI" type="OHCI"/>
<Controller name="EHCI" type="EHCI"/>
</Controllers>
</USB>
<Network>
<Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="08002729F22D" type="82540EM">
<DisabledModes>
<InternalNetwork name="intnet"/>
<NATNetwork name="NatNetwork"/>
</DisabledModes>
<BridgedInterface name="enp4s0"/>
</Adapter>
</Network>
<AudioAdapter codec="AD1980" driver="Pulse" enabled="true" enabledIn="true" enabledOut="true"/>
<RTC localOrUTC="UTC"/>
<Clipboard mode="Bidirectional"/>
<GuestProperties>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/HostVerLastChecked" value="6.1.22" timestamp="1621002795609864000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Revision" value="144080" timestamp="1620989182313799000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Version" value="6.1.22" timestamp="1620989182313469000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VersionExt" value="6.1.22_Fedora" timestamp="1620989182313576000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Product" value="Linux" timestamp="1620989182312903000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Release" value="5.11.19-300.fc34.x86_64" timestamp="1620989182313094000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Version" value="#1 SMP Fri May 7 14:17:15 UTC 2021" timestamp="1620989182313199000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="en_US" timestamp="1621003903978598000" flags=""/>
</GuestProperties>
<StorageControllers>
<StorageController name="IDE" type="PIIX4" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="true" Bootable="true">
<AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" hotpluggable="false" port="1" device="0"/>
</StorageController>
<StorageController name="SATA" type="AHCI" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="false" Bootable="true" IDE0MasterEmulationPort="0" IDE0SlaveEmulationPort="1" IDE1MasterEmulationPort="2" IDE1SlaveEmulationPort="3">
<AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0">
<Image uuid="{5e98a9f0-ca4d-4aaf-9fad-55cf97e6f922}"/>
</AttachedDevice>
</StorageController>
</StorageControllers>
</Hardware>
<Groups>
<Group name="/New group"/>
</Groups>
</Machine>
</VirtualBox>
E Net Arch
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Re: Fedora F34 System Crash while using Thunderbird

Post by E Net Arch »

PS .. I should note that on my Fedora 34 host, I also have a XP Guest that ran just fine after the migration.
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Re: Fedora F34 System Crash while using Thunderbird

Post by scottgus1 »

E Net Arch wrote:Both OS's host and guest reported that there was no data in the log to describe what happened.
If the VM got far enough along into the run process to open Thunderbird then Virtualbox would have had at lease a partial log file.

Start the VM from full power off, not save-state. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the VM from within the VM OS if possible. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the VM with the Power Off option set.

Please right-click the VM in the main Virtualbox window's VM list, choose Show Log. Save the far left tab's log, zip the log file, and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab.
E Net Arch
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Re: Fedora F34 System Crash while using Thunderbird

Post by E Net Arch »

uploading Zip File

last 3 runs of Fredora Email on boot drive. I don't know if it crashed on the last run, but def before that.

I don't wish to crash my system today.

But if necessary, let me know, I'll do it for science =)
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