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arbolitoloco

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Registered: 2024-08-23

Posts: 3

Virtual machine manager freezes when creating VM after Mutter upgrade

Hello!

After upgrading Mutter from 48.2 to 48.3, I noticed that when I use virtual machine manager to create a new VM, the application freezes and also causes some glitches on other programs like Firefox, where i can't click certain buttons. I'm running X11 with an nvidia GPU (using proprietary drivers). Tried downgrading mutter and the issue went away. The exact steps I'm taking are opening virt-manager, clicking on create a new virtual machine, selecting the ISO, and after this the whole program freezes and becomes unusable.

uname -a

Linux arbolitoloco 6.14.7-arch2-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 22 May 2025 05:37:49 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

This is being logged in journald

May 27 16:16:52 arbolitoloco libvirtd[3047]: Cannot find 'dmidecode' in path: No such file or directory
May 27 16:16:52 arbolitoloco libvirtd[3047]: Cannot find 'dmidecode' in path: No such file or directory
May 27 16:23:03 arbolitoloco libvirtd[3047]: nl_recv returned with error: No buffer space available
May 27 16:23:22 arbolitoloco libvirtd[3047]: nl_recv returned with error: No buffer space available
May 27 16:23:30 arbolitoloco systemd-coredump[4589]: [?] Process 1478 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                     
                                                     Stack trace of thread 1478:
                                                     #0  0x00007f1fc0f26503 g_hash_table_lookup (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x49503)
                                                     #1  0x00007f1fc14a422d n/a (/usr/lib/gnome-shell/libshell-16.so (deleted) + 0x2a422d)
                                                     #2  0x00007f1fc16415f7 n/a (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x325f7)
                                                     #3  0x00007f1fc1641709 g_signal_emit_valist (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x32709)
                                                     #4  0x00007f1fc16417c4 g_signal_emit (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x327c4)
                                                     #5  0x00007f1fc0903dfb n/a (libmutter-16.so.0 + 0x103dfb)
                                                     #6  0x00007f1fc08d06f9 meta_display_close (libmutter-16.so.0 + 0xd06f9)
                                                     #7  0x00007f1fc08e6458 n/a (libmutter-16.so.0 + 0xe6458)
                                                     #8  0x00007f1fc163019f g_object_run_dispose (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x2119f)
                                                     #9  0x00007f1fc08e4279 meta_context_destroy (libmutter-16.so.0 + 0xe4279)
                                                     #10 0x000055f8f411e61b n/a (/usr/bin/gnome-shell (deleted) + 0x261b)
                                                     #11 0x00007f1fc06376b5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x276b5)
                                                     #12 0x00007f1fc0637769 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27769)
                                                     #13 0x000055f8f411e9e5 n/a (/usr/bin/gnome-shell (deleted) + 0x29e5)
                                                     ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
May 27 16:23:30 arbolitoloco libvirtd[3047]: End of file while reading data: Input/output error

ESPNSTI

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Registered: 2016-06-21

Posts: 13

Re: Virtual machine manager freezes when creating VM after Mutter upgrade

I think I "might' have the same issue.

While I haven't tried creating a VM, I have seen the "glitches" in LibreWolf (Firefox) and elsewhere where I can't click on certain elements or areas of the screen.
I've seen it not respond to clicks in certain areas while running Windows in a VM using Virt-Manager.
It behaves as if it doesn't have mouse focus for certain portions of the screen, or as if something in the background is "eating" the clicks.
It's not frozen as other areas of the screen still respond to clicks, and affected areas still accept keyboard input.

In the case of Virt-Manager, closing it while leaving the VM running and reopening it seems to get it to respond normally again.
The same for LibreWolf, closing and reopening it helps getting out of it not responding to clicks.

I haven't figured out the pattern to when the glitches happen, but I suspect it has something to do with switching focus between applications.

I'm also using X11, with NVIdia Proprietary.

Downgrading Mutter "appears" to solve the issue... so far...
I'm not 100% certain since I don't have a solid way to reproduce the glitches.

gaelic

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Registered: 2010-08-01

Posts: 123

Re: Virtual machine manager freezes when creating VM after Mutter upgrade

Same here, problematic applications so far for me:

- QGis
- ferdium

gru

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Registered: 2020-07-12

Posts: 1

Re: Virtual machine manager freezes when creating VM after Mutter upgrade

I had similar issues with QGIS and slack-desktop. After downgrading mutter to 48.2 this is "solved". In QGIS this happened for me after launching the layer properties and closed it. After that I couldn't press any button on the main QGIS window. It was fixing itself after a while before it broke again.

arbolitoloco

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Registered: 2024-08-23

Posts: 3

Re: Virtual machine manager freezes when creating VM after Mutter upgrade

An issue was filed at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/- … MTc5NX0%3D so it would be good to provide details in that conversation.