[SailfishDevel] Error starting VM
Jens Thomas
jthomas at ackbit.de
Wed Feb 25 07:11:54 UTC 2015
Hi,
i installed the SDK yesterday the first time. I have preinstalled VBox
4.3.22 and run into the same issue: Booting the VM end up in a black
screen, just showing some messages:
tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
systemd-fsck[62]: system: clean, 23245/262144 files, 244244/1048575 blocks
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address uninitialized - upgrade
BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
My quick and dirty workaround is to ssh into the VM and sudo reboot the
machine, then it will start without problems. I can see the same
warnings, but it won't pause. This procedure was reproducible multiple
times.
Jens
Am 24.02.2015 um 16:13 schrieb Cathal Garvey:
> Hi Jarkko,
> journal.txt sent off-list.
>
> I am using 4.3.22, that's why it's annoying me. I'm aware that
> Debian's repos are very outdated ("stable") for user-facing
> applications like browsers, VMs, office, etc., so I downloaded
> directly from VirtualBox.org.
>
> Thanks for your time, hoping some solution can be found. The journal
> output looks informative about the failure to launch a user-session
> but it's not a system I understand enough to fix, nor do I have time
> to spare to learn the inner workings of SystemD just to get a VM
> going. :)
>
> On 24/02/15 14:50, Jarkko Lehtoranta wrote:
>> On 23/02/15 14:14, Cathal (Phone) wrote:
>>> Thanks for your help Ritesh! Hopefully some digging into less obvious
>>> logs might reveal the cause. It's a pity that VB images aren't as
>>> "plug and play" as commonly held. :/
>> Which Virtualbox version are you using? Please note that some Linux
>> distributions have very old Virtualbox versions in their package
>> repositories. For example the Debian Wheezy package repository contains
>> Virtualbox 4.1.18, which was originally released in 2012. So I would
>> first suggest trying out the Virtualbox 4.3.22 from virtualbox.org:
>> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads.
>>
>> If you have the same issue with Virtualbox 4.3.22 and can SSH into the
>> emulator, could you share the system journal output (sudo journalctl
>> --system > journal.txt) of the emulator?
>>
>> -Jarkko
>>
>>>
>>> On 23 February 2015 11:55:39 GMT+00:00, Ritesh Patel <rit78 at msn.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:40:46 +0000
>>> > From: cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me
>>> > To: devel at lists.sailfishos.org
>>> > Subject: Re: [SailfishDevel] Error starting VM
>>> >
>>> > Just bumping this one last time to see if anyone else has shared
>>> this
>>> > problem and found a fix.
>>> >
>>> > To recap, I'm using the latest SDK and the current "generic
>>> linux"
>>> > version of VirtualBox, and the "acceleration" pane in "system" in
>>> > Virtualbox is greyed out, so I cannot see any options there
>>> (someone
>>> > else suggested acceleration might be to blame).
>>> >
>>> > The problem is in booting the emulator VM. It displays several
>>> boot
>>> > messages, the last of which is an error, then pauses there. I
>>> *can*
>>> > successfully SSH in but the runlevel is indeterminate, and
>>> things seem
>>> > to behave normally for a console linux session.
>>> >
>>> > The message s displayed at VM boot are:
>>> >
>>> > [ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
>>> > systemd-fsck[62]: system: clean, 23245/262144 files,
>>> 244244/1048575 blocks
>>> > [ 12.297269] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address
>>> > uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
>>> >
>>> > Any help that can be provided greatly appreciated. I'm using the
>>> latest
>>> > VirtualBox on 64-bit Debian and the latest SDK, so it seems
>>> strange that
>>> > it doesn't launch. I'm interested in Sailfish and strongly
>>> considering
>>> > buying a Jolla, but I wanted to play around in the SDK first..
>>> >
>>> > On 16/02/15 11:19, Cathal Garvey wrote:
>>> > > Neither SDK nor Virtual machine are running. If I close
>>> Virtualbox and
>>> > > re-open, the option is still greyed out. Perhaps my system
>>> doesn't
>>> > > support acceleration?
>>> > >
>>> > > On 16/02/15 11:08, kim at foder.dk wrote:
>>> &g t; >>> That pane is greyed out in Virtualbox, for me. :-/
>>> > >>
>>> > >> The SDK must not be started, you cannot change the settings
>>> while the
>>> > >> image are running!
>>> > >>
>>> > >> /Kim
>>> > >>
>>> > >>> Hi,
>>> > >>> That pane is greyed out in Virtualbox, for me. :-/
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> On 16/02/15 10:58, Chris Walker wrote:
>>> > >>>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:16:53 +0100
>>> > >>>> kim at foder.dk wrote:
>>> > >>>>
>>> > >>>>>> This application failed to start because it could not
>>> find or load
>>> > >>>>>> the Qt platform plugin "xcb".
>>> > >>>>>
>>> > >>>>> I had this problem too, I think I had to disable something
>>> on the SDK
>>> > >>>>> in VirtualBox, I'm not sure but I think it was VT-x/AMD-V
>>> under
>>> > >>>>> system / acceleration.
>>> > >>>>
>>> > >>>> Thanks.
>>> > >>>>
>>> > >>>> I've unticked that in the Emulator and that now runs.
>>>
>>> The error messages displayed, ie.:
>>>
>>> > [ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
>>> > systemd-fsck[62]: system: clean, 23245/262144 files,
>>> 244244/1048575 blocks
>>> > [ 12.297269] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address
>>> > uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
>>>
>>> don't appear to have any bearing on your issue [1][2].
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Ritesh Patel
>>>
>>> [1]
>>>
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18055593/how-to-solve-fast-tsc-calibration-failed-issue-that-occurs-on-boot-in-virtualbox
>>>
>>>
>>> [2]
>>>
>>> http://fintastical.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/virtualbox-piix4smbus-error.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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