Bug 503156
| Summary: | qemu VNC :: xterm inside VM shows garbled text | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Stefan Assmann <sassmann> | ||||||
| Component: | qemu | Assignee: | Glauber Costa <gcosta> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||||
| Version: | 11 | CC: | berrange, crobinso, dwmw2, gcosta, hbrock, itamar, jonathan.underwood, markmc, mikey, mk, patmans, virt-maint | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | 0.10.6-9.fc11 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-11-04 12:11:56 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 480594 | ||||||||
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Description
Stefan Assmann
2009-05-29 10:30:34 UTC
Created attachment 345887 [details]
garbled-xterm.png
Yeah, I can reproduce this, even with vncviewer - doesn't seem reproducible outside of KVM, though Moving to qemu This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping bug #507626 is probably a dup of this Similar bug report for Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/397212 Glauber posted a patch here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-07/msg01498.html *** Bug 507626 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Glauber, do you plan to push updated builds with this patch for F-11? I don't see this patch incorporated on any of the recent koji builds..? The patched was NACKed upstream by Gerd. He believes there is a better way to solve it. As such, I indent to wait for the real fix, or write it myself it Gerd takes too long Gerd has posted an updated patch here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-07/msg02107.html my test machine is down presently, so haven't had chance to test it yet. Have been playing with this a bit, and unfortunately applying the patch in comment #10 against 0.10.5 requires picking up a fair amount of the recent vnc logic changes (vnc.c and vnc.h) - not sure how you'd recommend proceeding here? One option would be to pull vnc.[c,h] from the current HEAD and add the patch, I suppose.. not sure what else might break. So, the upstream commit is: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=3e28c9adf4 and it depends on the fix for bug #501131 which we also want back-ported (Note the vnc copyrect patch isn't applied to the stable-0.11 branch for F-12 yet, either) What I'd really like to see is both of these fixes back-ported to the stable-0.10 branch and sent upstream to qemu-devel This should be in the 0.10.7 release shortly: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?h=stable-0.10&id=74ccfe8b7e Will push this to updates-testing soon: * Fri Sep 11 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc> - 2:0.10.6-5 - Fix vnc segfault on disconnect (#501131) - Fix vnc screen corruption with e.g. xterm (#503156) - Rebase vnc sasl patches on top of these two vnc fixes qemu-0.10.6-5.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qemu-0.10.6-5.fc11 Created attachment 360920 [details]
Windows XP guest with grabled screen
As the image attached in Comment #16 shows, this update doesn't fix the problem for me. This is using: # rpm -qa | grep qemu qemu-system-x86-0.10.6-5.fc11.x86_64 qemu-img-0.10.6-5.fc11.x86_64 qemu-common-0.10.6-5.fc11.x86_64 Thanks for testing Jonathan No problem. Alas, if anything, the screen tearing has gotten worse with this version, rather than better - previously resizing the window in the guest triggered a redraw which would clean up the garbage (at least until scrolled again), but now that trick no longer works. Why on earth was version 2:qemu-0.10.6-5.fc11.x86_64 released with this "bugfix" that has made the graphics looks worse? Good question in Comment #20. Surely that's a mistake Mark? Sorry about that, guys This 'fix' will be in 0.10.7, so I'm inclined to leave it in for the moment and try and get it fixed If we don't get progress, I'll revert it soon Is it worth pushing a build of the 0.10.7 rc to updates-testing? Anything new on this bug? It's been open for 5 months now. It's realllllyyy annoying, it makes Windows even harder to use :-( *** Bug 528939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** What would the implications of pushing qemu 0.11 to FC11 be - would that work with libvirt and friends? If so, any chance of doing such a push? We don't have any immediate plans to update qemu in Fedora 11 to 0.11. See: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00008.html Honestly, it should be a lot easier to fix this bug than deal with the fallout from the inevitable regressions that would be caused by a re-base. It's just a question of someone finding the time to debug it. (In reply to comment #27) > We don't have any immediate plans to update qemu in Fedora 11 to 0.11. See: > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00008.html > > Honestly, it should be a lot easier to fix this bug than deal with the fallout > from the inevitable regressions that would be caused by a re-base. It's just a > question of someone finding the time to debug it. Bah ... Is there some way to workaround this bug? Is there another way to connect to the output other than VNC? I've been using virt-manager. Patrick - you could presumably run a VNC server inside your guest and connect to that, rather than the QEMU vnc client. The problem with backporting a fix is that there's been a lot of code churn with the vnc related stuff in qemu, so to actually fix it would require some knowledge of the vnc stuff, rather than mechanical adding and removing of commits (I know, as I tried that sometime ago). The people with that knowledge are too busy pushing forward than looking back at old releases (understandably - it's more interesting). qemu-0.10.6-9.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qemu-0.10.6-9.fc11 Patrick and Jonathan: okay, let's try and hit this bad boy with our big stick I'm pretty sure it's a problem with qemu's implementation of the CopyRect extension, so I've just disabled that extension in qemu-0.10.6-9.fc11 - that should fix the problem AFAIK, CopyRect works fine in qemu-0.11.0 in Fedora 12 Could you confirm that qemu-0.10.6-9.fc11 fixes the issue? (comment here and bump the karma in bodhi if so) Thanks! * Fri Oct 23 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc> - 2:0.10.6-9 - Disable the vnc CopyRect encoding since it's still broken (#503156) Mark: qemu-0.10.6-9.fc11 does indeed fix the issue for me. Thanks very much for taking the time to look at this. (In reply to comment #32) > Mark: qemu-0.10.6-9.fc11 does indeed fix the issue for me. Thanks very much for > taking the time to look at this. Me too, thanks! I commented on the web page (showed up as anonymous), but how do I bump bodhi karma? qemu-0.10.6-9.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update qemu'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10754 qemu-0.10.6-9.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |