Firefox takes whole VM down with error messages popping up in tray

[sling-shot]

I have an install of KDE MiniMe inside VirtualBox specifically to learn packaging.
Since I did not want to alter the basic setup so I got Firefox archive from their website and extracted to a subfolder in my /home and run it from there.
I know that it is Firefox that crashed because everything else seems to work relatively fine.
Sometimes from this situation I am not able to use the menu to shutdown. Even running poweroff as root gets me only upto the shutdown line regarding ACPI.
I will have to poweroff the virtual machine and restart.

But randomly and frustratingly when I am in the middle of doing something like working with DropBox or gathering some information, I start getting ding.. ding... ding... pop-ups from systray.
Once when Dolphin was open and I had hit F4, these error messages got collected in the commandline there.

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Message from syslogd@localhost at Wed Feb 20 18:36:00 2013 ...
localhost klogd: ------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@localhost at Wed Feb 20 18:36:00 2013 ...
localhost klogd: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Wed Feb 20 18:36:00 2013 ...
localhost klogd: Process khugepaged (pid: 22, ti=edb9a000 task=ed864150 task.ti=edb9a000)

Message from syslogd@localhost at Wed Feb 20 18:36:00 2013 ...
localhost klogd: Stack:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Wed Feb 20 18:36:00 2013 ...
localhost klogd: Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Wed Feb 20 18:36:00 2013 ...
localhost klogd: Code: 89 01 8b 45 ac e8 9b 7a 24 00 8b 55 c0 8b 42 40 8b 00 e8 ae f1 ff ff e9 86 fb ff ff 8d 46 14 89 46 14 89 46 18 eb 8c 0f 0b 0f 0b <0f> 0b 89 c2 8b 45 b4 e8 0e ef ff ff eb a9 89 c8 25 ff 0f 00 00

Message from syslogd@localhost at Wed Feb 20 18:36:00 2013 ...
localhost klogd: EIP: [<c01f4516>] khugepaged+0xd46/0xe40 SS:ESP 0068:edb9bf2c


[GermanTux]

slingshot - how much RAM did you allocate to the VM?  Also, are you running Firefox from the VM (guest), or from the host? 

[menotu]

I spotted this old post  mentioning  "Message from syslogd@localhost.xxxx"

A kernel reboot and USB were mentioned

and Hootiegibbon replied

That appears to be a kernel oops

Quote

Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Aug 23 14:45:44 2011 ...
localhost klogd: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Aug 23 14:45:44 2011 ...
localhost klogd: last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/modalias

Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Aug 23 14:45:44 2011 ...
localhost klogd: Process umount (pid: 17598, ti=ebe44000 task=e98996e0 task.ti=ebe44000)

and if I am reading itr correctly its possibly a usb device that has caused it

Ther has been an update to the toolchain - did you reboot after any of te updates ?

Jase

See link for full post

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=96071.0;wap2

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Do you have the Virtualbox Extension pack installed?

Any Shared Folders in use?

[sling-shot]

slingshot - how much RAM did you allocate to the VM?  Also, are you running Firefox from the VM (guest), or from the host? 

I gave 1 GB RAM to the virtual machine.
I am referring to Firefox that runs from inside the VM.

[sling-shot]

Do you have the Virtualbox Extension pack installed?

Any Shared Folders in use?

I have the extension pack installed. While installing the pack I got a mention that it was already installed or something. I am not too sure.

I had setup my /home/Documents as the shared folder but I never got to see that folder inside the virtual machine. (In fact I NEVER got the shared folder to work in any of my previous virtual installations too)

Thanks for the link. I will look it up.
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UPDATE: I read the link. Unfortunately I could not make heads or tails out of it

[Old-Polack]

Do you have the Virtualbox Extension pack installed?

Any Shared Folders in use?

I have the extension pack installed. While installing the pack I got a mention that it was already installed or something. I am not too sure.

I had setup my /home/Documents as the shared folder but I never got to see that folder inside the virtual machine. (In fact I NEVER got the shared folder to work in any of my previous virtual installations too)

Thanks for the link. I will look it up.
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UPDATE: I read the link. Unfortunately I could not make heads or tails out of it

In the guest VM, you need to add a line to /etc/fstab;

Documents      /home/<you>/Documents      vboxsf      defaults,uid=<your uid>,gid=<your gid>     0 0

Replace <you> with the actual user name you use in the VM, and <your uid> and <your gid> with the actual number of each, usually 500 for the first, or only, user.