Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 518476
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm: malloc(): memory corruption
Last modified: 2009-11-20 14:39:04 EST
Description of problem: My KVM host is a dual 4-core xeon system: [root@godzilla qemu]# virsh nodeinfo CPU model: x86_64 CPU(s): 8 CPU frequency: 2664 MHz CPU socket(s): 2 Core(s) per socket: 4 Thread(s) per core: 1 NUMA cell(s): 1 Memory size: 2033636 kB I installed an i386 ubuntu 9.04 virtual system using the "alternate" text mode CD installer and virt-manager, and shortly after the first boot following the install, everything froze up. The VM console was all black with a white area where the login would be typed, but it never finished rendering the complete login screen. The virt-manager app running on the host was frozen as well, and even the ssh session where I was logged into the host appeared frozen. It seemed like the host was down from where I sat. I eventually found the host console was working fine, did a kill -9 on the qemu-kvm process that was running the ubuntu VM, and everything appeared to start working again, and I found this in the qemu log: LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 1 -name testubu9d04i -uuid 3b57c17d-4e5b-9a6b-afd5-93189c948633 -monitor pty -pidfile /var/run/libvirt/qemu//testubu9d04i.pid -boot c -drive file=,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/testubu9d04i.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=54:52:00:49:6f:32,vlan=0,model=virtio -net tap,fd=18,vlan=0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -soundhw es1370 char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 audio: Failed to create voice `es1370.adc' audio: Failed to create voice `es1370.adc' *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/qemu-kvm: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x00007f7cbc0ea470 *** Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-system-x86-0.10.5-3.fc11.x86_64 qemu-kvm-tools-0.10.5-3.fc11.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.10.5-3.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: I'm afraid it isn't very reproducible at all. On other time when I booted the same VM, the VM itself crashed at boot time with no error message showing up, and since then the VM seems to be working fine. Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above for what it is worth Actual results: freezing and memory corruption errors Expected results: vm just runs normally. Additional info:
This may have something to do with the video. Any time it does flake out, it always seems to happen at the same instant as the ubuntu graphical boot screen is being replaced with the X login screen. I have also seen vncviewers crash when talking to ubuntu consoles on a Xen box at that same time. Something weird ubuntu does with the video maybe that the qemu video emulation gets confused by?
Okay, we really need a stack trace here to have any hope of figuring out what the problem here is Can you 'gdb /usr/bin/qemu-kvm <pid-of-qemu-process>' and do 'thread apply all bt full' ? It would be best to have qemu-debuginfo installed before doing that If I was to point fingers, I'd blame the vnc server code. e.g. we already know about bug #501131
I assume you mean a stack trace from a time when it has flaked out, not just any old time? That could be difficult since it hardly ever happens, but I can get the debuginfo installed in case it does happen again.
(In reply to comment #3) > I assume you mean a stack trace from a time when it has flaked out, > not just any old time? Yep > That could be difficult since it hardly ever happens Yeah, unfortunately there's not much we can do about it until we have some idea where the problem is > but I can get the debuginfo installed in case it does happen again. thanks
No response to needinfo since 2009-08-21, closing