Thursday, March 7, 2019

Here is what you typically see from SPICE on a normal setup:

(virt-viewer:6229): GSpice-WARNING **: 10:45:34.323: PulseAudio context failed Connection refused

(virt-viewer:6229): GSpice-WARNING **: 10:45:34.323: pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
AL lib: (WW) alc_initconfig: Failed to initialize backend "pulse"
AL lib: (EE) ALCplaybackAlsa_open: Could not open playback device 'default': Connection refused
AL lib: (WW) alcSetError: Error generated on device (nil), code 0xa005

(virt-viewer:6229): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:45:35.801: g_object_get: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(virt-viewer:6229): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:45:35.801: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
AL lib: (EE) ALCplaybackAlsa_open: Could not open playback device 'default': Connection refused
AL lib: (WW) alcSetError: Error generated on device (nil), code 0xa005

(virt-viewer:6229): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:45:36.393: g_object_get: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(virt-viewer:6229): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:45:36.393: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
AL lib: (EE) ALCplaybackAlsa_open: Could not open playback device 'default': Connection refused
AL lib: (WW) alcSetError: Error generated on device (nil), code 0xa005
AL lib: (EE) ALCcaptureAlsa_open: Could not open capture device 'default': Connection refused
AL lib: (WW) alcSetError: Error generated on device (nil), code 0xa004

(virt-viewer:6229): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:45:36.599: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(virt-viewer:6229): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:45:36.599: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(virt-viewer:6229): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:45:36.600: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(virt-viewer:6229): GSpice-WARNING **: 10:45:36.600: gst lacks volume capabilities on src

(virt-viewer:6229): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:45:36.600: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(virt-viewer:6229): GSpice-WARNING **: 10:45:36.600: gst lacks mute capabilities on src: 0

(virt-viewer:6229): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:45:36.600: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(virt-viewer:6229): GSpice-WARNING **: 10:45:36.649: Warning no automount-inhibiting implementation available

(virt-viewer:6229): GSpice-WARNING **: 10:45:41.934: keyboard grab failed 1

(virt-viewer:6229): GSpice-WARNING **: 10:45:41.939: keyboard grab failed 1

(virt-viewer:6229): GSpice-WARNING **: 10:45:47.865: keyboard grab failed 4

(virt-viewer:6229): GSpice-WARNING **: 10:46:02.623: keyboard grab failed 4

Created Red Hat Bugzilla 1686367.

Virtual machines updates

Udpates of the mac VMs. Why does Windows Update not detect any update? The network works fine from within the VM as far as Internet Explorer is concerned.

Also just noticed that the VMware memory accounting is bogus. It shows my vmware-vmx processes as using about 100MB when in reality it's a 4G guest. Apparently, my system has trouble dealing with two simultaneously active 4G guests. That's weird for a machine with 16G.

Noticed that the F29 installer no longer asks for a root or user password during installation. You have to enter it at first boot. Very annoying, since during installation, it was "wasted time" anyway (i.e. the installer was busy copying files).

After upgrade, Apple Screen Sharing with Crazypad is broken again. Sigh. Tip is to use dconf-editor, see previous post Ah nope, this time it was the vnc-server entry in the firewall that was disabled again. Time to clear that pesky needinfo in Red Hat Bugzilla 1499280.

Oh no, I selected French as my primary language and now my keyboard is all in French!

Backup and Sync from Google

I hate this process that uses tons of CPU and memory. Right now it's the largest process on my system besides kernel_task.