[arch-general] Spice issue with Arch (KDE) in QEMU/KVM

Wed Oct 11 22:29:20 UTC 2017

Thanks for the reply and the tip.

Yes, I have found this link:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/SPICE

which mentions enabling the spice-vdagentd service and I've done this.
The service is enabled and started but the problem remains (copy&paste
sometimes works sometimes not).

With:
$ xrandr --output Virtual-0 --auto
which for other OS I have tested works, Arch freezes.

All this with the latest kernel. At some point I tried to boot with
the LTS kernel. Again the same but this time the xrandr command works.
The screen resizes normally and I can copy&paste. Using the LTS kernel
instead of the latest kernel and issuing everytime the xrandr command
is not a really a issue to me. What bothers me is that the CPU is at
100% mainly because of the plasmashell and xorg. When I don't run
xrandr CPU is around 4%.

Here are some errors I havefound from journalctl:

Oct 11 22:11:33 arch-sd pulseaudio[464]: XIO:  fatal IO error 1
(Operation not permitted) on X server ":0"
Oct 11 22:11:33 arch-sd kdeinit5[423]: The X11 connection broke: I/O
error (code 1)
Oct 11 22:14:59 arch-sd ksmserver[436]: Qt: Session management error:
networkIdsList argument is NULL
Oct 11 22:15:00 arch-sd kdeinit5[417]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to
open layout memory xml file for reading
"/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml"
error: 5

Oct 11 22:34:32 arch-sd pulseaudio[474]: XIO:  fatal IO error 1
(Operation not permitted) on X server ":0"
Oct 11 22:34:32 arch-sd NetworkManager[241]: <warn>  [1507754072.1687]
error requesting auth for
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected: Authorization
check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down.
Oct 11 22:34:32 arch-sd NetworkManager[241]: <warn>  [1507754072.1688]
error requesting auth for
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open: Authorization check
failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down.
Oct 11 22:34:32 arch-sd kdeinit5[417]: The X11 connection broke: I/O
error (code 1)
Oct 11 22:34:32 arch-sd kernel: traps: ksmserver[436] general
protection ip:7f17d0646e98 sp:7ffe3c48d6d0 error:0 in
libQt5Core.so.5.9.2[7f17d04b2000+4e2000]
Oct 11 22:34:47 arch-sd ksmserver[448]: Qt: Session management error:
networkIdsList argument is NULL
Oct 11 22:34:47 arch-sd kdeinit5[420]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to
open layout memory xml file for reading
"/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml"
error: 5

Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd kwin_x11[473]: The X11 connection broke: I/O
error (code 1)
Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd pulseaudio[485]: XIO:  fatal IO error 11
(Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd sddm[283]: Authentication error: "Process crashed"
Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd sddm[283]: Authentication error: "Process crashed"
Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd kdeinit5[420]: The X11 connection broke: I/O
error (code 1)
Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd NetworkManager[255]: <warn>  [1507756071.1663]
error requesting auth for
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected: Authorization
check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down.
Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd NetworkManager[255]: <warn>  [1507756071.1666]
error requesting auth for
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open: Authorization check
failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down.
Oct 11 23:12:48 arch-sd ksmserver[650]: Qt: Session management error:
networkIdsList argument is NULL
Oct 11 23:12:48 arch-sd kdeinit5[626]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to
open layout memory xml file for reading
"/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml"
error: 5

Oct 11 23:34:11 arch-sd sddm[478]: Authentication error: "Process crashed"
Oct 11 23:34:11 arch-sd sddm[478]: Authentication error: "Process crashed"
Oct 11 23:34:11 arch-sd baloorunner[788]: The X11 connection broke
(error 1). Did the X11 server die?
Oct 11 23:34:11 arch-sd kdeinit5[626]: The X11 connection broke: I/O
error (code 1)
Oct 11 23:34:11 arch-sd kglobalaccel5[643]: The X11 connection broke
(error 1). Did the X11 server die?
Oct 11 23:34:32 arch-sd ksmserver[439]: Qt: Session management error:
networkIdsList argument is NULL
Oct 11 23:34:32 arch-sd kdeinit5[421]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to
open layout memory xml file for reading
"/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml"
error: 5

Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd pulseaudio[486]: XIO:  fatal IO error 11
(Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd kdeinit5[421]: The X11 connection broke: I/O
error (code 1)
Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd kwin_x11[476]: The X11 connection broke: I/O
error (code 1)
Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd kernel: traps: ksmserver[439] general
protection ip:7fcc7c83972c sp:7ffdd4593e70 error:0 in
libQt5Core.so.5.9.2[7fcc7c56d000+4e2000]
Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd NetworkManager[276]: <warn>  [1507757916.1518]
error requesting auth for
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected: Authorization
check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down.
Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd NetworkManager[276]: <warn>  [1507757916.1518]
error requesting auth for
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open: Authorization check
failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down.
Oct 11 23:39:38 arch-sd ksmserver[645]: Qt: Session management error:
networkIdsList argument is NULL
Oct 11 23:39:38 arch-sd kdeinit5[625]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to
open layout memory xml file for reading
"/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml"
error: 5

Oct 11 23:46:27 arch-sd kactivitymanagerd[724]: The X11 connection
broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
Oct 11 23:46:27 arch-sd kdeinit5[625]: The X11 connection broke (error
1). Did the X11 server die?
Oct 11 23:46:27 arch-sd NetworkManager[457]: <warn>  [1507758387.2581]
error requesting auth for
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected: Authorization
check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down.
Oct 11 23:46:27 arch-sd NetworkManager[457]: <warn>  [1507758387.2590]
error requesting auth for
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open: Authorization check
failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down.
Oct 12 00:00:19 arch-sd ksmserver[10680]: Qt: Session management
error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
Oct 12 00:00:21 arch-sd kdeinit5[10261]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed
to open layout memory xml file for reading
"/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml"
error: 5

Oct 12 00:10:43 arch-sd kwin_x11[11089]: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3
(BadWindow), sequence: 18361, resource id: 41943083, major code: 18
(ChangeProperty), minor code: 0

What can I do?

Regards,
Nick

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini
<grazzolini at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Em outubro 11, 2017 12:28 Nick Gilmour via arch-general escreveu:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just installed the latest Arch with KDE as a VM with QEMU/KVM in
>> Virtual Media Manager. Everything seems to be working fine except
>> spice, so the resolution and copy/paste do not work. The spice-vdagent
>> and xf86-video-qxl are installed. There is not something wrong with my
>> host configuration since I have already two other 2 VMs which work
>> fine with spice. One with Fedora 26, which worked out of the box and
>> one with Ubuntu 16.04.3 for which I had only to install spice-vdagent
>> and now it also works fine.
>>
>
> Well, it's hard to what your issue might be, given that you didn't provide
> any error or logs. Having said that, you need to install *and* start the
> spice-vdagentd service. Contrary to fedora and ubuntu, arch does not enable
> nor start anything for you.
>
> Regards,
> Giancarlo Razzolini