Re: [Xen-users] pv guest fails to start after 4.2 upgrade

[Travis Osterman <tosterman@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>
>> I'm running xen on gentoo (3.7.0 hardened) and upgraded from 4.1 to
>> 4.2 yesterday as 4.2 is marked as stable in the portage tree.
>> Afterwards, I cannot start my guests and get the following error
>> (currently running 4.2.1).  Any help in troubleshooting would be
>> greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -- T
>>
>> # xl create -c /data/xen/prime.pv
>> libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:1212:device_model_spawn_outcome: domain 3
>> device model: spawn failed (rc=-3)
>> libxl: error: libxl_qmp.c:641:libxl__qmp_initialize: Connection error:
>> No such file or directory
>> Daemon running with PID 8701
...
>>
>> ================== ATTACHMENTS ============================
>>
>> xl -vvv create -c /data/xen/prime.pv
>> http://pastebin.com/92PW3QRH
>>
>> xl dmesg
>> http://pastebin.com/ba2Xxv7w
>>
>> emerge --info (system info)
>> http://pastebin.com/VKSfKjCW
>>
> Hello Travis,
>
> pleas check /var/log/xen/domainname-dm.log. I think that Qemu is needed in
> this case of a PV guest. I had the same problem yesterday and the reason was
> that I forgot to install a special dependency in my case libsdl. In my case
> the boot stucked at some point and it wasn't obvious that it was related to
> that.
>
> Eventually something in the portage package is wrong. Hope this would help.
>
> Best Regards
>
>

I have media-libs/libsdl-1.2.15-r2 installed.  No change after rebuilding.

Here is the guest log:

# cat /var/log/xen/xl-prime.log
Waiting for domain prime (domid 8) to die [pid 14679]
libxl: debug: libxl_event.c:512:libxl__ev_xswatch_register: watch
w=0x626cf0 wpath=@releaseDomain token=3/0: register slotnum=3
libxl: debug: libxl_event.c:457:watchfd_callback: watch w=0x626cf0
wpath=@releaseDomain token=3/0: event epath=@releaseDomain
libxl: debug: libxl.c:1015:domain_death_xswatch_callback:
[evg=0x624fe0:8] from domid=8 nentries=1 rc=1
libxl: debug: libxl.c:1026:domain_death_xswatch_callback:
[evg=0x624fe0:8]   got=domaininfos[0] got->domain=8
libxl: debug: libxl.c:1053:domain_death_xswatch_callback:  exists
shutdown_reported=0 dominf.flags=ffff0020
libxl: debug: libxl.c:1019:domain_death_xswatch_callback: [evg=0] all reported
libxl: debug: libxl.c:1083:domain_death_xswatch_callback: domain death
search done

Thanks again.


-- T

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