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 18:39, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Austin English wrote:
>
>> Log was attached, here's a second one that was made when this screenshot was.
>
> Does the guest remember what happened (e.g., in syslog or
> /var/log/kern.log*)?  If not, maybe it is still possible to get the
> guest to log to the host during failure (see rsyslogd.conf(5), section
> "Remote machine"), or to increase the loglevel and read messages from
> the screen (by going to a non-graphical console and running something
> like
>
>        echo 9 >/proc/sys/kernel/printk
>        echo 50 >/proc/sys/kernel/printk_delay
>
> ).

Nothing shows in /var/log/kern.log* or /var/log/syslog*

I tried the commands listed, set the copy going, then switched to
VTERM1, with tail -f /var/log/kern.log running, but nothing showed.
When disk activity stopped, I returned to the GUI, where the copy had
succeeded. I removed the directory, and ran it a second time, when it
immediately hung.

After a reboot, still nothing in either log.

-- 
-Austin