[Bug 1447038] Re: Shutdown/Restart of live session guest does not work in Virtualbox or VMWare

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

I was expecting confirmation of my thoughts about that job waiting to
end; we got that from flocculant.

There isn't anything missing for this but careful debugging on the
shutdown processes. Ideally it would have to be reproduced with the
splash disabled, so we can see as much information as possible, possibly
attaching a serial console to the VM so that debug messages from
plymouth and/or systemd can be written there, hopefully something will
pop up.

The gist of it hasn't changed, I still think this is failing because
plymouth doesn't like some aspect of how the video driver works on
VirtualBox and VMWare, so one thing to try would be to test with
different video drivers -- in KVM parlance, for example, switching
between vga and qxl could change the result, but I'm not familiar enough
with VBox and haven't used VMWare in so long that I wouldn't know what
drivers there are or how to change them :)

** Changed in: casper (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Triaged

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Title:
  Shutdown/Restart of live session guest does not work in Virtualbox or
  VMWare

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in casper package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hardware: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e613830ce44594c5cf93

  Running a live guest, 20150422 15.04 image.  Cannot shutdown/restart
  using normal procedure/menu item.  Must hard power off the guest.

  Steps to reproduce:
  - Start up live session in Virtualbox or VMWare preferably with the latest daily ISO
  - Select "Shut Down" in the system GUI

  Expected results:
  - The system shuts down and the VM reports that it is shut down

  Actual results:
  - The system does not shut down and instead remains on a blank screen

  Known affected flavors:
  - Ubuntu
  - Xubuntu
  - Ubuntu GNOME
  - Lubuntu
  - Kubuntu
  - Ubuntu MATE

  Notes:
  - The bug does not occur after installation, only in the live session
  - Does not affect 14.10 and earlier

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