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Kubuntu 14.04 LTS locks up shortly after starting virtualbox VM

Bug #1316757 reported by Diego Remolina
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Bug Description

Machine was running 12.04 LTS and worked fine, did not have any prior VirtualBox crashes.

After upgrading to 14.04 LTS, the machine consistently locks up about 10-20 minutes after starting Virtualbox and running a Windows 8.1 VM.

The symptons are system load goes really high, machine becomes unresponsive in GUI. I can change to a plain text shell, but then even a reboot command will not work. Have to hard reset the machine.

root@test:/var/log# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04

root@test:/var/log# apt-cache policy virtualbox
virtualbox:
  Installed: 4.3.10-dfsg-1
  Candidate: 4.3.10-dfsg-1
  Version table:
 *** 4.3.10-dfsg-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: virtualbox 4.3.10-dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue May 6 15:13:36 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-20 (75 days ago)
InstallationMedia: It
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-21 (15 days ago)

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Diego Remolina (dijuremo) wrote :
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Diego Remolina (dijuremo) wrote :
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It is possible the issue is triggered by virtualbox when using a btrfs backend. After the system hung up, I looked at the syslog and saw these messages:

May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020496] ------------[ cut here ]------------
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020499] kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-3.13.0/fs/btrfs/ctree.c:3166!
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020501] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020502] Modules linked in: joydev pci_stub vboxpci(OF) vboxnetadp(OF) vboxnetflt(OF) vboxdrv(OF) rfcomm b
nep snd_hda_codec_hdmi ip6t_REJECT xt_hl ip6t_rt nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ipt_REJECT xt_comment xt_LOG xt_multiport xt_recent xt_limit xt_
tcpudp xt_addrtype nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack snd_hda_codec_realtek eeepc_wmi asus_wmi ip6table_filter sparse_keymap ip6_tables
 mxm_wmi x86_pkg_temp_thermal snd_hda_intel nf_conntrack_netbios_ns intel_powerclamp nf_conntrack_broadcast snd_hda_codec coretemp nf_nat_ftp kvm_
intel snd_hwdep nf_nat kvm arc4 btusb snd_pcm nf_conntrack_ftp bluetooth nf_conntrack crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel snd_page_a
lloc aesni_intel snd_seq_midi iptable_filter ath9k aes_x86_64 snd_seq_midi_event lrw ath9k_common ath9k_hw gf128mul ip_tables glue_helper ablk_hel
per x_tables psmouse ath nvidia(POF) cryptd serio_raw lpc_ich snd_rawmidi mac80211 snd_seq snd_seq_device cfg80211 snd_timer mac_hid snd drm wmi m
ei_me mei soundcore parport_pc ppdev lp parport btrfs xor raid6_pq libcrc32c hid_logitech_dj usbhid hid e1000e ahci ptp libahci pps_core video
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020537] CPU: 6 PID: 21071 Comm: btrfs-endio-wri Tainted: PF O 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020538] Hardware name: ASUS All Series/Z87-PRO, BIOS 1707 12/13/2013
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020539] task: ffff8803123c5fc0 ti: ffff880238846000 task.ti: ffff880238846000
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020540] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa00f7a31>] [<ffffffffa00f7a31>] btrfs_set_item_key_safe+0x161/0x170 [btrfs]
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020549] RSP: 0018:ffff880238847b70 EFLAGS: 00010286
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020550] RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 0000000332b43000
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020551] RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffff880238847c76 RDI: ffff880238847b8f
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020552] RBP: ffff880238847bc8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff880238847b90
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020552] R10: 0000000332b4e000 R11: 00000000ffffffff R12: ffff880238847b7e
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020553] R13: ffff88041c0b7120 R14: ffff880238847c76 R15: ffff88021dcff040
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020554] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88041ed80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020555] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020556] CR2: 00007f3308eee000 CR3: 000000041dc0e000 CR4: 00000000001427e0
May 8 10:44:23 ae407001 kernel: [155243.020557] DR0: 0000000000000000...

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Diego Remolina (dijuremo) wrote :

The problem is definitively the combination of Virtualbox and btrfs. I backed up my data, reformatted the file system where the virtualbox vms live using ext4 and the system has not crashed for 24+ hours now, whereas with btrfs it would crash within 20 minutes.

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