Bug 232528

Summary: emulators/virtualbox-ose: VNC doesn't work after upgrading to 5.2.20
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Volodymyr Kostyrko <arcade>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Jung-uk Kim <jkim>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Some People CC: ags18, arinci, dutchbsd, ekimovsi, exceed, jkim, nikita, p-fbsd-bugs, vvd, w.schwarzenfeld
Priority: --- Flags: bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (vbox)
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Volodymyr Kostyrko 2018-10-22 14:54:54 UTC 
Hello.

After upgrading to 5.2.20 remote VNC connection succeeds but only shows black windows of default size regardless of what happens on VM. VM works perfectly, there's just no image on VNC.

Tapping keys over VNC window makes them go to vm correctly.

Thanks in advance.
Comment 1 DutchBSD 2018-10-26 15:06:35 UTC 
I have the same problem, noVNC and or tightVNC shows only black screens.
Comment 2 arinci 2018-10-26 15:22:40 UTC 
Same problem here!
Comment 3 Daisuke Ban 2018-10-28 15:14:31 UTC 
Same problem occurs on my FreeBSD box (11.2-RELEASE-p4 / amd64)
Client: UltraVNC (on Windows10) and Chicken of the VNC (MacOS)
Comment 4 Nikita Druba 2018-10-29 10:22:04 UTC 
I confirm, FreeBSD 11.1 and 11.2.
Comment 5 Walter Schwarzenfeld 2018-10-29 13:52:46 UTC 
If you have set 3D Acceleration, try to disable it.
Comment 6 Volodymyr Kostyrko 2018-10-29 14:03:28 UTC 
Was disabled. 2D enabled.
Comment 7 DutchBSD 2018-10-29 15:55:16 UTC 
2D/3D enabled/Disable does not help at all to get output visible at all.
For me it's clear that 5.2.20 changed something to break this. 5.2.18 is fine.

11.2-RELEASE-p4 / amd64 for me too
Comment 8 G. Paul Ziemba 2018-10-29 20:12:30 UTC 
Same problem here. Host 12.0-BETA1 r339549, port virtualbox-ose-5.2.20.

At least I know I am not the only one experiencing this issue.
Comment 9 DutchBSD 2018-10-31 23:17:04 UTC 
FYI, there's a ticket open in the virtualbox site as well: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18072
Comment 10 Aleksandr 2018-11-10 10:10:24 UTC 
I confirm, FreeBSD 12 beta 2 (amd64)
Comment 11 DutchBSD 2018-11-11 09:38:08 UTC 
Just tested with vbox 5.2.22 again on 11.2 p4 x64.
Same problem occurs, only black vnc screens.
Comment 12 Vladimir Druzenko freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-11-21 17:23:16 UTC 
Same here: 5.2.18 work fine, 5.2.20, 5.2.22 - black screen 640x480, but keyboard work.
Comment 13 DutchBSD 2018-11-29 05:31:51 UTC 
Created attachment 199654 [details]
patch

after patch https://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/ticket/18153/vnc_fix.patch

novnc output working again on 5.2.20 and 5.2.22 versions.
Comment 14 Vladimir Druzenko freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-11-29 12:54:42 UTC 
(In reply to Dutchman01 from comment #13)
This patch work for me.
Comment 15 G. Paul Ziemba 2018-11-29 18:11:42 UTC 
(In reply to Dutchman01 from comment #13)
Works for me on 5.2.20. Thanks!
Comment 16 Jung-uk Kim freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-11-29 18:36:28 UTC 
I'll take it.
Comment 17 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-11-29 21:10:26 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: jkim
Date: Thu Nov 29 21:09:26 UTC 2018
New revision: 486206
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/486206

Log:
  Fix a VNC regression since 5.2.20.

  PR:		232528
  Obtained from:	VirtualBox Ticket #18153

Changes:
  head/emulators/virtualbox-ose/Makefile
  head/emulators/virtualbox-ose/files/patch-src_VBox_Main_src-client_ConsoleImpl.cpp
Comment 18 Jung-uk Kim freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-11-29 21:16:54 UTC 
Committed, thanks!