Instant crash starting VBox on 12.0-Stable

[Kevin Oberman]

Thanks for the info, but it has never been a problem on 11. I am running it
on 11.2-Stable of last week. The problem pops up only on 12. I will next
try something in mid-September, but I fear that the change that triggers
the crash goes back much further. It may take a while.

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 11:13 AM Dale Scott <dalescott at shaw.ca wrote:

> Fwiw, I am running virtualbox-ose-nox11-5.2.22 on FreeBSD 11.2 with
> (almost)
> no issues. I installed virtualbox-ose-nox11 using pkg, then compiled
> virtualbox-ose-kmod from ports (compiling kmod on the box was required
> about
> a year ago or the system would crash at boot, and I follow the same
> procedure after pkg upgrade).
>
> I use phpvirtualbox for a UI, which reports an error if I try to snapshot
> (so I don't snapshot). The only time vbox has crashed was once when I tried
> running two vms, and I assumed it was due to insufficient memory or some
> other system issue, and not virtualbox per se.
>
> Dale
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > emulation at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Oberman
> > Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2018 11:19 AM
> > To: freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Instant crash starting VBox on 12.0-Stable
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:26 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > After updating my system to 12 and re-installing all ports, the system
> is
> > > panicing when I try to run VirtualBox. There have been several bugs
> > opened
> > > where VBox crashes the system instantly when started. Not the virtual
> > > system, but the GUI to start (or manage) virtual systems.
> > >
> > > I have two slightly different crashes, one failing from vboxnetadp.ko
> and
> > > the other crashing in ifindex_alloc in if.c called from vboxnetadp.ko.
> In
> > > both cases, the panic was triggered in vboxNetAdpOsCreate.
> > >
> > > I'll admit that I was surprised to see these happen even before any VM
> was
> > > started or touched.
> > >
> > > With possibly three tickets on this, I see no responses to any of them.
> I
> > > will add my report of one of them. They really should be merged,
> though,
> > > and I am not sure which one will be the final one. I do have both full
> > > dumps and can make them available.
> > >
> > > I really need to resolve this rather soon or fall back to 11.2. Even
> > > though I have backups, it will be quite  pain!\
> > >
> >
> > I have confirmed that the problem exists prior to the branch of
> 12-STABLE.
> >
> > Can anyone confirm running VirtualBox on head after 11.0-Release? Moving
> > back in time in SVN is tricky, and, in this case, sometimes requires
> > rolling back ports. Any aid in narrowing the failure window would help.
> > --
> > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
> > E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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