Re: [Xen-users] xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Andreas Greve <andreas.greve@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hallo Su Zhang,

sorry for the short answer yesterday it was written on train on my handy.

/var/log/xen/console must be a directory.

> There is no any file or directory called /etc/default/xen*.

Sorry that was specific to my debian system. The correct name is

/etc/sysconfig/xend

Andreas,

There is no file at /etc/sysconfig/xend, instead, there are files called /etc/sysconfig/xencommons and /etc/sysconfig/xendomains

If in this file the option

#XENCONSOLED_TRACE=[none|guest|hv|all]

is aktivated and set to all (in my case) and if the directory /var/log/xen/console does not exist

the daemon xenconsoled dies directly after start on boot because xenconsed want to write to /var/log/xen/console/hypervisor.log.

but the directory does not exist.

There is a line "#XENCONSOLED_TRACE=[none|guest|hv|all]" within /etc/sysconfig/xencommons. Currently, this line ("#XENCONSOLED_TRACE=[none|guest|hv|all]") is commented out, so it seems that it is not activated right now?
again, there is no file or directory at /var/log/xen/console in my file system.

Bevor you try to start a DomU look if xenconsoled is running (ps augx | grep xenconsoled). If xenconsoled is not running perhaps you have the same problem.

Actually, I the output of the command line does indicate that the xenconsoled is running:

[root@XenTester su]# ps augx | grep xenconsoled
root 3826 0.0 0.0 90480 348 ? SLl 10:10 0:00 xenconsoled --pid-file=/var/run/xenconsoled.pid
root 5119 0.0 0.0 103284 800 pts/2 S+ 10:53 0:00 grep xenconsoled
[root@XenTester su]#

So it seems that your issue is not exactly same as mine because the XENCONSOLED TRACE is inactivated under my default settings, do you think so?

my way arround the problem was (as root):

    mkdir /var/log/xen/console

starting daemon by hand

    /usr/sbin/xenconsoled

making sure the the xenconsoled is running

    ps augx | grep xenconsoled

and than trying to start a domU (pv).

    xm create <domU>

After that all works fine for me including for a system reboot too.

I inspected the "make install" of (4.1.2) and only found the creation of /var/log/xen directory but nothing for the creation of

/var/log/xen/console. But the source from xenconsoled depends on that directory.

So I think that it is a bug in the "make install"

Andreas
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Von: Su Zhang [mailto:westlifezs@xxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. März 2012 02:46
An: Andreas Greve
Cc: Ian Campbell; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Re: [Xen-users] xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Andreas Greve <andreas.greve@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hallo,
if it is a pv then look if the directory /var/log/xen/console exists. If some logging options in /etc/default/xen* are enabled xenconsoled does not start on boot. Because it could not write to /var/log/xen/console/hypervisor.log. The make install does not create the missing directory (4.1.2) .
I run in this problem today.
I hope the above helps you.

Andreas
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Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your reply. Interestingly, the file /var/log/xen/console doesn't exist on my machine. There is no any file or directory called /etc/default/xen*. So how did you address the similar problem? Could you please be a bit specific? Do I need to generate these files manually? Or How can I generate these files automatically? Is this issue caused by these missing files?

Thanks,
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 16:30 +0000, Su Zhang wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Ian Campbell
> <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>         On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 23:45 +0000, Su Zhang wrote:
>         > Hello Community,
>         >
>         > I encountered an error while running "xm console domU". Here
>         is the


>         > running script:
>         >
>         > # xm console domU
>         > xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or
>         directory
>         >


>         > I googled and found out that this issue is mostly result
>         from
>         > forgetting starting xenconsole service.
>         > However, after I started xenconsole, the issue is still


&gt!
 ;       
 there. Please
>         > see:
>         
>         
>         You might need to restart your guests and/or toolstack after
>         starting
>         xenconsole.

>         
>         This should all have been taken care of by the initscripts
>         shipped with
>         xen -- are you not using them for some reason?
>         
>         
> 


> Ian,
> 
>    Do initscripts here refer to the xen-related scripts
> under /etc/init.d/ ?
>    Like xencomms?

xencommons, yes.

>  [...]

> [root@XenTester su]# virt-install -l


> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/ -p -n f13 -r 768 --vcpus=1
> --disk=/srv/xen/mailserver.img --graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0,port=5901


> --noautoconsole

I'm not at all familia!
 r with
virt-install or Fedora but given this
domain is to be called "f13" I would have expected a Fedora mirror to be
listed rather than the CentOS 5 mirror. Is this normal?

Do you know if this command will create a PV or an HVM guest?



If this is an HVM domain then it is possible that it simply doesn't have
a text console which you can connect to with xl console. The "Could not
read tty from store" message is often indicative of this.



It appears you have configured VNC for this domain, have you tried
connecting a vncviewer to port 5901 on the host? e.g. vncviewer
localhost:1 or localhost::5091 (check the vncviewer manpage, I'm not
sure of the syntax). Perhaps virt-* includes a command to do this for


you automatically?

If you want a text console from an HVM guest then you can do the
virt-install equivalent of adding
	series = 'pty'
to your guest configuration. I'm afraid I don't know h!
 ow to
actually do
that with virt-install though.

If this is a PV guest then I have no idea what might be wrong.

Ian.



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