Public bug reported: Having an issue in Ubuntu 24.04 (desktop) when running as a guest in KVM/Libvirt.
The system starts fine and works for a time (often short, sometimes longer). However, eventually the system display halts, and after a time goes all black. Occasionally, the system might regain responsiveness, but more likely never does, and requires a restart. A soft restart is adequate, and the system responds to the queue to shutdown. The halting does not seem to be related to workload and occurs on a system running idle with adequate resources. After restarting, an error report displays saying that spice-vdagent crashed with a SIGSEV. This seems to be a recent development, but the issue has happened more occasionally in the past. However, it has become a frequent enough issue to make the experience unusable. Guest vm set up with a standard process on both Ubuntu and Fedora hosts, using default VM settings and reasonable resources allocated. Additional details below. Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS ``` $ apt-cache policy spice-vdagent spice-vdagent: Installed: 0.22.1-4build3 Candidate: 0.22.1-4build3 Version table: *** 0.22.1-4build3 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ``` ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-qxl (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Attachment added: "Section of error report" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2095065/+attachment/5851996/+files/Screenshot%20From%202025-01-15%2023-34-58.png ** Description changed: Having an issue in Ubuntu 24.04 when running as a guest in KVM/Libvirt. The system starts fine and works for a time (often short, sometimes longer). However, eventually the system halts. Occasionally, the system might regain responsiveness, but more likely never does, and requires a restart. A soft restart is adequate, and the system responds to the queue to shutdown. The halting does not seem to be related to workload and occurs on a system running idle with adequate resources. After restarting, an error report displays saying that spice-vdagent crashed with a SIGSEV. This seems to be a recent development, but the issue has happened more occasionally in the past. However, it has become a frequent enough issue to make the experience unusable. + Guest vm set up with a standard process on both Ubuntu and Fedora hosts, + using default VM settings and reasonable resources allocated. + Additional details below. Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS ``` - $ apt-cache policy spice-vdagent + $ apt-cache policy spice-vdagent spice-vdagent: - Installed: 0.22.1-4build3 - Candidate: 0.22.1-4build3 - Version table: - *** 0.22.1-4build3 500 - 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages - 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status + Installed: 0.22.1-4build3 + Candidate: 0.22.1-4build3 + Version table: + *** 0.22.1-4build3 500 + 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages + 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ``` ** Description changed: - Having an issue in Ubuntu 24.04 when running as a guest in KVM/Libvirt. + Having an issue in Ubuntu 24.04 (desktop) when running as a guest in + KVM/Libvirt. The system starts fine and works for a time (often short, sometimes longer). However, eventually the system halts. Occasionally, the system might regain responsiveness, but more likely never does, and requires a restart. A soft restart is adequate, and the system responds to the queue to shutdown. The halting does not seem to be related to workload and occurs on a system running idle with adequate resources. After restarting, an error report displays saying that spice-vdagent crashed with a SIGSEV. This seems to be a recent development, but the issue has happened more occasionally in the past. However, it has become a frequent enough issue to make the experience unusable. Guest vm set up with a standard process on both Ubuntu and Fedora hosts, using default VM settings and reasonable resources allocated. Additional details below. Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS ``` $ apt-cache policy spice-vdagent spice-vdagent: Installed: 0.22.1-4build3 Candidate: 0.22.1-4build3 Version table: *** 0.22.1-4build3 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ``` ** Description changed: Having an issue in Ubuntu 24.04 (desktop) when running as a guest in KVM/Libvirt. The system starts fine and works for a time (often short, sometimes - longer). However, eventually the system halts. Occasionally, the system - might regain responsiveness, but more likely never does, and requires a - restart. A soft restart is adequate, and the system responds to the - queue to shutdown. The halting does not seem to be related to workload - and occurs on a system running idle with adequate resources. + longer). However, eventually the system display halts, and after a time + goes all black. Occasionally, the system might regain responsiveness, + but more likely never does, and requires a restart. A soft restart is + adequate, and the system responds to the queue to shutdown. The halting + does not seem to be related to workload and occurs on a system running + idle with adequate resources. After restarting, an error report displays saying that spice-vdagent crashed with a SIGSEV. This seems to be a recent development, but the issue has happened more occasionally in the past. However, it has become a frequent enough issue to make the experience unusable. Guest vm set up with a standard process on both Ubuntu and Fedora hosts, using default VM settings and reasonable resources allocated. Additional details below. Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS ``` $ apt-cache policy spice-vdagent spice-vdagent: Installed: 0.22.1-4build3 Candidate: 0.22.1-4build3 Version table: *** 0.22.1-4build3 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ``` -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-qxl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2095065 Title: Frequent spice agent crashes as KVM/Libvirt guest Status in xserver-xorg-video-qxl package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Having an issue in Ubuntu 24.04 (desktop) when running as a guest in KVM/Libvirt. The system starts fine and works for a time (often short, sometimes longer). However, eventually the system display halts, and after a time goes all black. Occasionally, the system might regain responsiveness, but more likely never does, and requires a restart. A soft restart is adequate, and the system responds to the queue to shutdown. The halting does not seem to be related to workload and occurs on a system running idle with adequate resources. After restarting, an error report displays saying that spice-vdagent crashed with a SIGSEV. This seems to be a recent development, but the issue has happened more occasionally in the past. However, it has become a frequent enough issue to make the experience unusable. Guest vm set up with a standard process on both Ubuntu and Fedora hosts, using default VM settings and reasonable resources allocated. Additional details below. Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS ``` $ apt-cache policy spice-vdagent spice-vdagent: Installed: 0.22.1-4build3 Candidate: 0.22.1-4build3 Version table: *** 0.22.1-4build3 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ``` To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-qxl/+bug/2095065/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
