Re: 2.6.34-rc2: xen DomU not booting

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Sat Mar 20 2010 - 05:33:50 EST


On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 01:14 -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> again a bit late in the game, I tried to upgrade one of my DomUs from
> 2.6.33 to 2.6.34-git (tried -rc1 yesterday, pulled again today, so I'm on
> -rc2 now):
>
> ------
> dom0# xm create sid.cfg -c
> Using config file "/etc/xen/sid.cfg".
> Started domain sid
>
> ------
>
> Then it just "hangs" there:

Can you try this patch please, I think it will resolve the issue you
see.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/87081/

> it won't return to the shellprompt (as if the
> domU crashed) but it won't connect to the domU console either (as it does
> perfectly with 2.6.33). And indeed, the domU is listed as running:
>
> dom0# (xm list sid ; sleep 3; xm list sid) | grep ^sid
> sid 55 256 1 r----- 140.8
> sid 55 256 1 r----- 144.3
>
> Also, "xm dmesg" is blank and netconsole doesn't work inside a domU, IIRC.
>
> Hints how to debug this (besides doing git bisect, again) are very much
> welcome!
>
> Oh, the Dom0 is Ubuntu 8.04 (2.6.24-24, Xen 3.2.0) on a Mac Mini.
>
> Thanks,
> Christian.

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Ian Campbell

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