[Bug 1859106] [NEW] 4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

[Bug 1859106] [NEW] 4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

[Mike Swanson]

Public bug reported:

In QEMU 4.1.x and earlier, ReactOS can successfully boot, but starting
with 4.2, it fails, instead coming up with an error "The video driver
failed to initialize."

This happens regardless of VM configuration (even -M pc-i440fx-4.1) and
it works well with older versions of QEMU. bisecting QEMU to find the
first bad commit reveals 0221d73ce6a8e075adaa0a35a6ef853d2652b855 as the
culprit, which is updating the seabios version; perhaps this bug belongs
there, but I don't know the appropriate avenue (it seems seabios is a
subproject of QEMU anyway?).

** Affects: qemu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  In QEMU 4.1.x and earlier, ReactOS can successfully boot, but starting
  with 4.2, it fails, instead coming up with an error "The video driver
  failed to initialize."

  This happens regardless of VM configuration (even -M pc-i440fx-4.1)
  and it works well with older versions of QEMU. bisecting QEMU to find
  the first bad commit reveals 0221d73ce6a8e075adaa0a35a6ef853d2652b855
  as the culprit, which is updating the seabios version; perhaps this
  bug belongs there, but I don't know the appropriate avenue (it seems
  seabios is a subproject of QEMU anyway?).

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[Bug 1859106] Re: 4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

[Mike Swanson]

I should add, ReactOS can be downloaded from here:
https://reactos.org/download

The LiveCD is sufficient to see the problem.

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Title:
  4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  In QEMU 4.1.x and earlier, ReactOS can successfully boot, but starting
  with 4.2, it fails, instead coming up with an error "The video driver
  failed to initialize."

  This happens regardless of VM configuration (even -M pc-i440fx-4.1)
  and it works well with older versions of QEMU. bisecting QEMU to find
  the first bad commit reveals 0221d73ce6a8e075adaa0a35a6ef853d2652b855
  as the culprit, which is updating the seabios version; perhaps this
  bug belongs there, but I don't know the appropriate avenue (it seems
  seabios is a subproject of QEMU anyway?).

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[Bug 1859106] Re: 4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Possibly related thread:
"Do we need a cpu with TSC support to run SeaBIOS?"
https://www.mail-archive.com/seabios@seabios.org/msg11726.html

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Title:
  4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  In QEMU 4.1.x and earlier, ReactOS can successfully boot, but starting
  with 4.2, it fails, instead coming up with an error "The video driver
  failed to initialize."

  This happens regardless of VM configuration (even -M pc-i440fx-4.1)
  and it works well with older versions of QEMU. bisecting QEMU to find
  the first bad commit reveals 0221d73ce6a8e075adaa0a35a6ef853d2652b855
  as the culprit, which is updating the seabios version; perhaps this
  bug belongs there, but I don't know the appropriate avenue (it seems
  seabios is a subproject of QEMU anyway?).

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[Bug 1859106] Re: 4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

[Thomas Huth]

The QEMU project is currently considering to move its bug tracking to
another system. For this we need to know which bugs are still valid
and which could be closed already. Thus we are setting older bugs to
"Incomplete" now.

If you still think this bug report here is valid, then please switch
the state back to "New" within the next 60 days, otherwise this report
will be marked as "Expired". Or please mark it as "Fix Released" if
the problem has been solved with a newer version of QEMU already.

Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.


** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

Status in QEMU:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  In QEMU 4.1.x and earlier, ReactOS can successfully boot, but starting
  with 4.2, it fails, instead coming up with an error "The video driver
  failed to initialize."

  This happens regardless of VM configuration (even -M pc-i440fx-4.1)
  and it works well with older versions of QEMU. bisecting QEMU to find
  the first bad commit reveals 0221d73ce6a8e075adaa0a35a6ef853d2652b855
  as the culprit, which is updating the seabios version; perhaps this
  bug belongs there, but I don't know the appropriate avenue (it seems
  seabios is a subproject of QEMU anyway?).

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[Bug 1859106] Re: 4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

[Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  In QEMU 4.1.x and earlier, ReactOS can successfully boot, but starting
  with 4.2, it fails, instead coming up with an error "The video driver
  failed to initialize."

  This happens regardless of VM configuration (even -M pc-i440fx-4.1)
  and it works well with older versions of QEMU. bisecting QEMU to find
  the first bad commit reveals 0221d73ce6a8e075adaa0a35a6ef853d2652b855
  as the culprit, which is updating the seabios version; perhaps this
  bug belongs there, but I don't know the appropriate avenue (it seems
  seabios is a subproject of QEMU anyway?).

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[Bug 1859106] Re: 4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

[Elvis Stansvik]

This is still a problem with qemu 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.16, and can be
reproduced with:

curl -LO https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/reactos/ReactOS/0.4.13/ReactOS-0.4.13-live.zip
unzip ReactOS-0.4.13-live.zip
qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom ReactOS-0.4.13-Live.iso -boot d -usb -device usb-tablet
[Pick "LiveCD" in the boot menu]

Which gives the error shown in the attached screenshot.

I've changed the Status back to New.

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Expired => New

** Attachment added: "The failure to initialize the video driver"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1859106/+attachment/5510558/+files/initialization_failure.png

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Title:
  4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  In QEMU 4.1.x and earlier, ReactOS can successfully boot, but starting
  with 4.2, it fails, instead coming up with an error "The video driver
  failed to initialize."

  This happens regardless of VM configuration (even -M pc-i440fx-4.1)
  and it works well with older versions of QEMU. bisecting QEMU to find
  the first bad commit reveals 0221d73ce6a8e075adaa0a35a6ef853d2652b855
  as the culprit, which is updating the seabios version; perhaps this
  bug belongs there, but I don't know the appropriate avenue (it seems
  seabios is a subproject of QEMU anyway?).

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[Bug 1859106] Re: 4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

[Thomas Huth]

This is an automated cleanup. This bug report has been moved to QEMU's
new bug tracker on gitlab.com and thus gets marked as 'expired' now.
Please continue with the discussion here:

 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/475


** Tags added: graphics x86

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Expired

** Bug watch added: gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues #475
   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/475

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Title:
  4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  In QEMU 4.1.x and earlier, ReactOS can successfully boot, but starting
  with 4.2, it fails, instead coming up with an error "The video driver
  failed to initialize."

  This happens regardless of VM configuration (even -M pc-i440fx-4.1)
  and it works well with older versions of QEMU. bisecting QEMU to find
  the first bad commit reveals 0221d73ce6a8e075adaa0a35a6ef853d2652b855
  as the culprit, which is updating the seabios version; perhaps this
  bug belongs there, but I don't know the appropriate avenue (it seems
  seabios is a subproject of QEMU anyway?).

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[Bug 1859106] Re: 4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

[Elvis Stansvik]

As a workaround, I have extracted bios.bin and vgabios-stdvga.bin from
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/318981898/seabios_1.10.2-1ubuntu1_all.deb,
passing -bios bios.bin to qemu and making sure vgabios-stdvga.bin is in
the current working directory when running qemu in order for it to be
used (seems like there is no command line option for qemu to specify the
VGA bios).

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Title:
  4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  In QEMU 4.1.x and earlier, ReactOS can successfully boot, but starting
  with 4.2, it fails, instead coming up with an error "The video driver
  failed to initialize."

  This happens regardless of VM configuration (even -M pc-i440fx-4.1)
  and it works well with older versions of QEMU. bisecting QEMU to find
  the first bad commit reveals 0221d73ce6a8e075adaa0a35a6ef853d2652b855
  as the culprit, which is updating the seabios version; perhaps this
  bug belongs there, but I don't know the appropriate avenue (it seems
  seabios is a subproject of QEMU anyway?).

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[Bug 1859106] Re: 4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

[Elvis Stansvik]

@th-huth Aha, thanks!

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Title:
  4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  In QEMU 4.1.x and earlier, ReactOS can successfully boot, but starting
  with 4.2, it fails, instead coming up with an error "The video driver
  failed to initialize."

  This happens regardless of VM configuration (even -M pc-i440fx-4.1)
  and it works well with older versions of QEMU. bisecting QEMU to find
  the first bad commit reveals 0221d73ce6a8e075adaa0a35a6ef853d2652b855
  as the culprit, which is updating the seabios version; perhaps this
  bug belongs there, but I don't know the appropriate avenue (it seems
  seabios is a subproject of QEMU anyway?).

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