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User-interface freezes when creating a Debian VM

Host system information:

  • Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon 64-bit
  • Boxes version: 40.2 from Flathub
  • Flatpak version: 1.11.2

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to debian.org and download debian-10.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso

  2. Launch Boxes

  3. Click on the button to create a new VM

  4. Click "Operating System Image File"

  5. Select the Debian ISO from the file-chooser

  6. Check the "express installation" switch.

  7. Enter a username

  8. Attempt to enter a password

Expected result: I am able to enter a password for the virtual machine, and proceed to installation. Actual result: The Boxes interface completely freezes, not allowing me to click "previous," "next," or any other field or button. I attached a (cropped) screenshot of the frozen window.

Screenshot_from_2021-06-22_15-58-42

When I close the terminal window to force Boxes to close, relaunching Boxes shows that the VM was not created.

The same ISO can be used to create a virtual machine in VirtualBox, which installs and launches without issues. Boxes also has no trouble creating a Fedora VM.

Here is the output of the terminal from performing steps 1-8:

flatpak run org.gnome.Boxes 
Gtk-Message: 15:01:29.237: Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"

(gnome-boxes:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 15:01:30.098: GtkFlowBox with a model will ignore sort and filter functions

(gnome-boxes:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 15:01:30.099: GtkListBox with a model will ignore sort and filter functions

(gnome-boxes:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:01:30.693: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(gnome-boxes:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:01:30.694: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(gnome-boxes:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:01:32.108: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(gnome-boxes:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:01:32.144: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(gnome-boxes:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:01:32.145: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(gnome-boxes:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:01:32.146: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(gnome-boxes:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:01:32.458: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.
Boxes-Message: 15:02:51.227: media-manager.vala:239: Error connecting to host Tracker Miners: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.portal.Tracker was not provided by any .service files

(gnome-boxes:2): Boxes-CRITICAL **: 15:02:51.229: media-manager.vala:244: Error starting local Tracker Miners: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.portal.Tracker was not provided by any .service files

(gnome-boxes:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:02:55.099: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(gnome-boxes:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:02:55.112: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(gnome-boxes:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:02:55.113: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(gnome-boxes:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:02:55.113: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.
Edited by Andre Klapper