X crash when resize window from Full-screen mode (by Ctrl+F)

[Marco]

Hi, when i pass to full-screen mode no problem! ...but when i resize the window with Ctrl+F, X crash. The system virtualized is WindowsXP (with guest additions) and the host is Archlinux with gnome 2.22.3, the driver video is Nvidia (current), and from messages.log i get this: gdm-binary[3634]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: fatal error of X. Rebooting of :0.

Thanks for any replies... Marco Rocco

[Frank Mehnert]

What do you mean by resizing the window with CTRL+F? This key combination is used for going into fullscreen, so how/when do you resize the window?

[Marco]

If you press Ctrl+F, vbox go in full-sreen, but if you re-press ctrl+F so return in normal window size. Well, when i re-press Ctrl+F so X crash.

[Frank Mehnert]

Ok. Please could you post the output of

X -version

from your guest? And how easy is it to reproduce the crash? Does this happen every time you switch back from fullscreen?

I assume you have the 2.0.2 additions installed?

[Marco]

X.Org X Server 1.4.2

The crash is reproducible if i pass from Full-screen mode to normal window size mode, and the crash doesn't happen every time... and yes i have 2.0.2 addition installed.

[Frank Mehnert]

Please could you enable core dumps on your system (check this on how to do this) and try again with version 2.0.4? If the crash still happens: Does it create a core file?

[scriptmunkee]

I have been having this same issue with VirtualBox 2.0.2 and 2.0.4 on my Archlinux system. From my investigation this is what I have found:

When I am running Compiz-Fusion and returning my XP virtual image from full screen to a window with Crtl+f my X session will crash. I have been able to stop the crashing by adding '-rmode image' to my VirtalBox launcher. Another way to stop the crash from happening is to run Metacity instead of Compiz-Fusion. IMO it looks like there is a problem between SDL and compiz.

Component information:

• X = 1.4.2
• nvidia bin driver = 177.80
• Compiz-Fusion = 0.7.8
• SDL lib = 1.2.13
• Kernel = 2.6.27
• VirtualBox additions 2.0.4

From looking at my log files I am able see that when running compiz and restoring from full-screen VB, there is a crash when VMMDev::SetVideoModeHint is trying to be executed.

I also have been trying all morning to get a Core dump of VB, but I have not been able to do so. This there a way to increase the logging if I can't get a core dump on my system?

[scriptmunkee]

Log file with crash

[scriptmunkee]

Log file with successful resize

[Frank Mehnert]

Does this problem still exist for you? No, there is no additional logging but you could provide us a core dump, see ​here for details.

[Frank Mehnert]

No response, closing. Please reopen if still relevant with VBox 3.2.8.