Top posting because this is your obligatory reminder that a reliance
of 3rd party kernel drivers is not recommended for Tumbleweed users
This is clearly documented on the Tumbleweed wiki -
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed
The reason for this recommendation is precisely because of issues such
as these - they happen and will continue to happen as long as the 3rd
parties in question (Nvidia and Oracle/VirtualBox) do not keep up with
the pace of Kernel development
Now I've said 'We told you so', I do hope this thread finds suitable
workarounds for users who are affected, and if not, I'd strongly
encourage the use of nouveau Nvidia drivers instead of the proprietary
drivers, and the use of KVM instead of Virtualbox.
Cheers,
Rich
On 5 August 2016 at 18:04, Larry Finger
On 08/05/2016 02:20 AM, Herbert Graeber wrote:
Am 04.08.2016 um 20:29 schrieb Larry Finger:
On 08/04/2016 12:41 PM, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
On 04.08.2016 18:55, Larry Finger wrote:
If you are running TW in a VirtualBox Virtual Machine, DO NOT install this snapshot!!!!! There is a bug that breaks xboxvideo for both KDE and Gnome. Not only does the new 4.7.0-1 kernel fail to boot to X, but something has broken X even when using older kernels.
The specifics of the problem are unknown, but you have been warned.
Larry
There has been an xorg-server update lately (1.18.3 -> 1.18.4). Maybe the updated server is the problem, you could check /var/log/xorg.0.log to see what is wrong.
That may be part of the problem, but a kernel BUG is triggered when xboxvideo loads. I need to find the reason for it first.
It's not a kernel bug. The really old xboxvideo module (5.0.18) is not compatible with the new kernel. Maybe an update of virtualbox (5.0.26 or better 5.1.2) will fix that.
If you have installed 20160830, you can boot wth the previous kernel and everything is well.
I have been trying to get later versions of VirtualBox to build in OBS for some time; however, they fail because the i586 build runs out of memory even though it has been allowed to have as much as 20 GB. Other times, both flavors run out of disk space, and yesterday, a build failed because of networking problems. I have finally disabled 32-bit builds in the hope that something will make it through. Unfortunately, that has not yet happened. Given the long delays in OBS, each time one of these builds has to be resubmitted, it takes about 2 weeks until the next such failure. I have no idea how to get an updated version into TW.
One other thing. I installed a locally-built version of 5.0.26 onto TW. It also failed. Perhaps there is a problem with xorg-server.
Version 5.0.26 is supposed to be building at the moment, but I have no idea if it will succeed, or if it will fix the problems.
Larry
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