Triaging old bug tickets ... QEMU 1.5 is quite old already - can you still reproduce the crash with the latest version of QEMU?
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1243639 Title: qemu-1.5.3 segment fault with -vga qxl Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: execute " qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -machine accel=kvm:tcg -m 1G -drive file=/dev/sda --full-screen -spice addr=127.0.0.1,port=5900,disable-ticketing -vga qxl " on shell will get segment fault after a few seconds if I don't connect to it with spicec client immediately. IF excute "spicec -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5900 " immediately !!!! after the qemu-system-x86_64 execution, then no segment fault happens and it runs well. ===================== GDB output: root@kali-john:~# gdb /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.1-debian (gdb) run -enable-kvm -machine accel=kvm:tcg -m 1G -drive file=/dev/sda --full-screen -spice addr=127.0.0.1,port=5900,disable-ticketing -vga qxl [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". [New Thread 0x7ffff3737700 (LWP 14797)] [New Thread 0x7ffff2d54700 (LWP 14798)] [New Thread 0x7ffff0fff700 (LWP 14799)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff683ad70 in pixman_image_get_data () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpixman-1.so.0 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff683ad70 in pixman_image_get_data () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpixman-1.so.0 #1 0x000055555581060a in surface_data (s=0x5555566183a0) at /zh-download/QEMU/qemu-1.5.3/include/ui/console.h:235 #2 0x0000555555818616 in vga_draw_graphic (s=0x55555662c778, full_update=1) at /zh-download/QEMU/qemu-1.5.3/hw/display/vga.c:1788 #3 0x0000555555818c6a in vga_update_display (opaque=0x55555662c778) at /zh-download/QEMU/qemu-1.5.3/hw/display/vga.c:1917 #4 0x000055555580eb15 in qxl_hw_update (opaque=0x55555662bd70) at /zh-download/QEMU/qemu-1.5.3/hw/display/qxl.c:1766 #5 0x00005555557bd6bc in graphic_hw_update (con=0x555556618d00) at ui/console.c:254 #6 0x00005555557c8426 in qemu_spice_display_refresh (ssd=0x55555662c418) at ui/spice-display.c:417 #7 0x000055555580eff0 in display_refresh (dcl=0x55555662c420) at /zh-download/QEMU/qemu-1.5.3/hw/display/qxl.c:1886 #8 0x00005555557c0cb1 in dpy_refresh (s=0x555556618370) at ui/console.c:1436 #9 0x00005555557bd3af in gui_update (opaque=0x555556618370) at ui/console.c:192 #10 0x0000555555797f20 in qemu_run_timers (clock=0x5555565b5a30) at qemu-timer.c:394 #11 0x0000555555798183 in qemu_run_all_timers () at qemu-timer.c:453 #12 0x0000555555760bb7 in main_loop_wait (nonblocking=0) at main-loop.c:470 #13 0x00005555557cd19c in main_loop () at vl.c:2029 #14 0x00005555557d43f2 in main (argc=13, argv=0x7fffffffe2b8, envp=0x7fffffffe328) at vl.c:4419 (gdb) ====================== http://www.spice-space.org/download/releases/spice-0.12.4.tar.bz2 http://www.spice-space.org/download/releases/spice-protocol-0.12.6.tar.bz2 spice compiling ./configure --enable-smartcard=no && make qemu-1.5.3 compiling ./configure \ --disable-strip --enable-debug \ --target-list=x86_64-softmmu,x86_64-linux-user \ --disable-sdl --audio-drv-list=alsa --disable-vnc --disable-xen --disable-libiscsi \ --disable-seccomp --disable-glusterfs --disable-libssh2 --disable-smartcard-nss \ --disable-usb-redir --disable-brlapi --disable-curl --disable-bsd-user \ \ --enable-kvm --enable-spice --enable-system --enable-guest-agent --enable-vhost-net root@kali-john:~# qemu-system-x86_64 -version QEMU emulator version 1.5.3, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1243639/+subscriptions