linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.34-rc2: xen DomU not booting

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Message-ID: <1269077602.28761.42.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:33:22 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
To:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, jeremy@...p.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc2: xen DomU not booting

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.

-- 
Ian Campbell

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