[arch-general] [Bulk] Re: FS#41424 - Virtualbox 4.3.14, USB doesn't work flawlessly

[Peter Bauer]

I need to downgrad systemd to keep my system working with the older
kernel (3.11.6-1). I received huge amount of errors in when I ran tail
-f /var/log/messages:


Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 38 07 28 00 00 08 00
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x08
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: Sense Key : 0x4 [current]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: Info fld=0x0
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 38 07 30 00 00 08 00
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x08
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: Sense Key : 0x4 [current]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: Info fld=0x0
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 38 07 38 00 00 08 00
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x08
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: Sense Key : 0x4 [current]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: Info fld=0x0
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 38 07 40 00 00 08 00
Sep  5 18:49:38 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code


This could be cause by my internal SD-Card-Reader. I have a Lenovo X230
tablet.

I copied old versions from /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ downgraded following
packages:

pacman -U syslog-ng-3.5.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
systemd-sysvcompat-216-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
libsystemd-216-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz systemd-216-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
lib32-systemd-216-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

My IgnPkg line in /etc/pacman.conf is getting ridicolous:

IgnorePkg   = virtualbox  virtualbox-guest-iso  virtualbox-guest-modules
 virtualbox-host-modules linux syslog-ng systemd-sysvcompat libsystemd
systemd lib32-systemd

All this just to keep USB passtrough working. Hopefully gnome will not
make a dependency on a systemd version. Then I will be really f*.


Am 03.09.2014 um 14:10 schrieb Peter Bauer:
> I downgraded and have postive results.
> 
> 
> Currently installed:
> 
> virtualbox 4.2.18-1
> virtualbox-guest-iso 4.2.18-1
> virtualbox-host-modules 4.2.18-7
> linux 3.11.6-1
> 
> 
> No USB read/write problems any more. I still get Malformed Packet in
> Wireshark, but this seems unrelated.
> 
> However now I receive crashes of my VM when attaching/detaching USB
> devices to my VM often. Guess I have to live with that.
> 
> 
> Am 03.09.2014 um 12:54 schrieb Peter Bauer:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have also issues with USB devices on Windows 7 32Bit guest. The
>> devices I use are mainly USB Serial COM ports. On top of that a
>> proprietary binary protocol is used.
>>
>> The applications that communicate with the USB Serial COM ports are
>> constantly having problems reading and writing data.
>>
>> Installed:
>> virtualbox 4.3.14-3
>> virtualbox-guest-iso 4.3.14-1
>> virtualbox-guest-modules 4.3.14-5
>> virtualbox-host-modules 4.3.14-5
>> Linux localhost 3.16.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 14 07:40:19 CEST
>> 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Extension Pack 4.3.14r95030
>>
>> With usbmon and wireshark I could see a lot of malformed USB packets.
>> I'm afraid I don't know enough to make an exact conclusion whats wrong
>> in detail.
>>
>> I will try a downgrad from 4.3.14-3 to 4.3.12 and report again.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 04.08.2014 um 22:05 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
>>> On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 20:15 +0100, Marco Monteiro wrote:
>>>> I have experienced problems with USB also. My guest is Windows 8.1.
>>>> When I try to access the USB device from Windows, the access fails
>>>> and then everything inside the VM seems to start misbehaving. I cannot
>>>> properly shutdown the VM - I have to kill the VBox process.
>>>
>>> Hi Marco,
>>>
>>> when the USB data transfer paused, the graphic performance and access to
>>> the VDI drive slowed down, for iTunes and other apps running on the XP
>>> guest. Performance for iTunes always is bad, but other apps usually run
>>> without issues. I always could shut down Windows, but sometimes much
>>> time was needed before I could use the menu. If you can't shutdown your
>>> guest, you could try to shut down the virtual machine by closing the
>>> VBox window, instead off killing the process.
>>>
>>> I add an additional comment to my bug report.
>>>
>>> "There isn't an issue for the USB mouse, but data transfer between VBox
>>> and an iPad2 is broken when I use 4.3.14. There aren't issues anymore,
>>> after I downgraded all packages to 4.3.12. The whole performance of Vbox
>>> is slower when syncing iTunes and an iPad with .14 and there are many
>>> unknown errors and timeouts, if you e.g. try to install 20 applications
>>> or more from iTunes running on the VBox guest to an iPad. Disconnecting
>>> the iPad's USB causes VBox to crash, if it is done without unchecking
>>> the iPad in VBox's devices menu, this doesn't happen when using .12.
>>>
>>> The used packages are virtualbox, virtualbox-host-dkms,
>>> virtualbox-extension-pack and I install the guest additions that fit to
>>> the installed version of virtualbox. Perhaps the culprit isn't the
>>> package virtualbox, it might be the package virtualbox-extension-pack,
>>> since it's needed for USB2 support." -
>>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41424
>>>
>>> JFTR everything already was ok, when I only downgraded the package
>>> virtualbox, disabled USB2 support and kept the 4.3.14 guest additions.
>>> In the mean time I downgraded all packages and add the 4.3.12 guest
>>> additions, so with the outdated version I now can use USB2 again.
>>>
>>> Perhaps you have the time confirm my bug report.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ralf
>>>
>>
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