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saucy vagrant image shared folder 'ls' blocks

Bug #1252872 reported by Julian Taylor
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Bug Description

using the saucy vagrant cloud images (32 and 64 bit)[0] with virtualbox as provider on ubuntu saucy amd64 the shared folder set up by vagrant can not be viewed with 'ls'
If one does so it blocks forever and consumes 100% cpu.
Reading files from this directory with e.g. 'cat' works

strace ls shows its constantly calling getdents:
...
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or TCGETS, 0x7fff603cea40) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
ioctl(1, TIOCGWINSZ, 0x7fff603ceb20) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
stat("/vagrant/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/vagrant/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
getdents(3, /* 1 entries */, 32768) = 24
getdents(3, /* 1 entries */, 32768) = 24
getdents(3, /* 1 entries */, 32768) = 24
getdents(3, /* 1 entries */, 32768) = 24
getdents(3, /* 1 entries */, 32768) = 24
getdents(3, /* 1 entries */, 32768) = 24
getdents(3, /* 1 entries */, 32768) = 24
getdents(3, /* 1 entries */, 32768) = 24
...

with the precise vagrant images it works fine.

[0] https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/saucy/current/saucy-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: virtualbox 4.2.16-dfsg-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-14.21-generic 3.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 19 22:30:52 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-19 (31 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Julian Taylor (jtaylor) wrote :
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Julian Taylor (jtaylor) wrote :

the same happens with upstream virtualbox 4.3.2 deb package
(to use vagrant with this requires backporting this patch: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/commit/b2070eec530790579057a2a4fa89a5b86d5f4b4d)

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Julian Taylor (jtaylor) wrote :

trusty images have the same issue, raring and precise images do not.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Tarjei Huse (tarjei-huse) wrote :

This may be related to this bug:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/20480842/1734789

Upgrading to latest vagrant and Virtualbox + running

   vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

Before creating the image solved my problems. AFAIK the problem is in the version of virtualbox guest additions.

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
importance: Critical → High
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Piotr Jasiulewicz (pjasiulewicz) wrote :

Hi, getting the exact same problem with mod_perl modules on a precise 64 box:

[pid 12628] ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0x7ffffc8b5598) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)

The same modules work fine on a local server.

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Steve Jang (estebanjang) wrote :

I am also being affected by this.
vagrant version: Vagrant 1.4.3
virtual box version: 4.2.16
vagrant box:
https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/saucy/20140223/saucy-server-cloudimg-i386-vagrant-disk1.box

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maikel (maikel-5) wrote :

Looks like this bug arose from the ashes
Vagrant: 1.5.2
Virtualbox 4.3.10 r93012

happens both on 13.04 and 13.10

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Steve Grosbois (steve.grosbois) wrote :

Now, i've got this too !! :'(
Vagrant 1.5.1
Virtualbox 4.3.10
Vagrant box Ubuntu Saucy 13.10 32bit found on https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/

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Ben Howard (darkmuggle-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Saucy is deprecated. Marking as invalid.

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1252872

tags: added: iso-testing
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