Bug#638254: linux-image-3.0.0-1-686-pae: copying a large directory causes VirtualBox to hang when using 3.0.0-1 kernel

[Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 17:35, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 17:08 -0700, Austin English wrote:
>> Package: linux-2.6
>> Version: 3.0.0-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Regression from linux-image-2.6.32-5-686. I wanted to copy a directory
>> (the wine git repository). Doing this with the 3.0.0-1 kernel then
>> causes VirtualBox to shutdown the virtual machine.
> [...]
>
> What does that mean?  Does VirtualBox crash, or does it report an error?
>
> Ben.

It reports an error, saying the VM is unstable and needs to be
shutdown. You can choose to ignore the error, but the VM is then
completely nonresponsive.

-- 
-Austin