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Random crashes - WinXP 32bit guest since 4.2.6
Posted: 21. Jan 2013, 16:50
by agodfrin
A week ago, I upgraded to the latest 4.2.6 build (4.2.6 r82870) and ever since my WinXP client has been crashing randomly. I never had any such problems with the previous version I was running (4.2.1). The crashes are all for divide by zero exceptions.
I have seen notes about crashes related to 3D acceleration, but I am not using that (it is set off).
I have not found any specific pattern related to the crashes, except that they may be related to the host going to sleep. I keep my VM up all the time, and I noticed it disappears after my host wakes up again - but not every time.
One thing I did not do is to re-install the guest additions for 4.2.6. Is that something important to do ?
Albert
Re: Random crashes - WinXP 32bit guest since 4.2.6
Posted: 21. Jan 2013, 17:08
by mpack
I don't feel that updating the GAs is required unless the changelog mentions a specific bug that affects me, though in your case I suggest it would do no harm to find out if your problem relates to this.
Please clarify what is crashing. Are you talking about a guest application or DLL, and if so which?
Re: Random crashes - WinXP 32bit guest since 4.2.6
Posted: 21. Jan 2013, 17:11
by noteirak
agodfrin wrote:One thing I did not do is to re-install the guest additions for 4.2.6. Is that something important to do ?
The guest additions should definitly match the Virtualbox version - if they don't, there is always the possiblity of an incompatiblity.
You should do that first and post back on the status.
Re: Random crashes - WinXP 32bit guest since 4.2.6
Posted: 21. Jan 2013, 18:37
by agodfrin
mpack wrote:Please clarify what is crashing. Are you talking about a guest application or DLL, and if so which?
The entire guest VM crashes with the following exception:
Code: Select all
Process: VirtualBoxVM [761]
Path: /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBoxVM
Identifier: VirtualBoxVM
Version: ???
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: VBoxSVC [455]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2013-01-21 09:42:50.758 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
Report Version: 10
Sleep/Wake UUID: 4A9C1B48-8C82-42F5-9A1E-ED813B03CA08
Crashed Thread: 4 TIMER
Exception Type: EXC_ARITHMETIC (SIGFPE)
Exception Codes: EXC_I386_DIV (divide by zero)
I have installed the guest additions for 4.2.6 and will see what happens.
Albert
Re: Random crashes - WinXP 32bit guest since 4.2.6
Posted: 26. Jan 2013, 01:00
by tsuna
I have this problem too, I filed a bug
#11425 in Trac.
Re: Random crashes - WinXP 32bit guest since 4.2.6
Posted: 7. Feb 2013, 14:16
by RichardBarran
Also tickets #11351 and #11420.
Relieved to see I'm not the only person suffering from this very annoying bug!
Re: Random crashes - WinXP 32bit guest since 4.2.6
Posted: 27. Feb 2013, 13:38
by agodfrin
I am actually getting the crashes with all of my VMs, including one running Debian and others running Oracle Enterprise Linux. Seeing other comments, I am sure the problem has nothing to do with specific client OS's.
The last comment on ticket
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11351 hints that the problem happens when switching networks:
However, I've noticed that it only happens after I've awoken the computer in a different network. That is:
Bring up Ubuntu 10.10 in a VM
Close laptop
Open laptop in a different network attaching to a new WiFi - VM is still running.
Close laptop
Open laptop in the original network - VM gone.
As long as I wake up the laptop in the network in which I original attached the VM, it's still there and runs fine.
I am going to revert back to an older version of Virtualbox.
Albert
Re: Random crashes - WinXP 32bit guest since 4.2.6
Posted: 23. Mar 2013, 16:34
by agodfrin
I just upgraded to the lastest version (4.2.10 r84104) and I am no longer getting the crashes.
It seems to be the fix to bug 11444 (
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11444) that did it.
Albert