[Fedora-xen] Console Hang On Boot Using 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5xenU

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 05:15:56PM -0600, Mike Freemon wrote:
> Was there any responses on this email from 10/17?  I'm seeing the same 
> problem on my system:

I posted a reply to the same problem reported in another thread - I mised
this thread originally. The solution is to install new kudzu in the DomU 
from updates-testing. This new kudzu ensures that the agetty process gets
spawned on the xvc0 console as well as the paravirt framebuffer.

> # uname -a
> Linux grids1 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5xen0 #1 SMP Sat Oct 14 17:49:47 EDT 2006 i686 
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> # rpm -qa|grep xen
> kernel-xenU-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5
> xen-3.0.3-1.fc5
> kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5
> kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5
> kernel-xen0-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5
> 
> 
> At 10/17/2006 10:14 AM  Tuesday, Stan Larson wrote:
> >Sorry if this is a repeat.  I haven't found searchable archives for this 
> >forum yet.
> >
> >1.  I installed FC5 + xen on a base system and performed "yum -y upgrade".
> >2.  I then created and booted a DomU using the original FC5 disk.  So far, 
> >so good.
> >3.  In the DomU, I performed "yum -y upgrade" and rebooted the DomU using 
> >the new kernel, 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5xenU.
> >
> >The DomU boots OK, but returns control or starts a shell.  The console 
> >starts all services and then just hangs.  I can ssh into the domain
> >from another window and all is well.  If I break from the console using 
> >CRTL-] and then return using xm console, I'm still stuck.  If I boot to 
> >the old kernel (the one provided by the FC5 install disk, aka 
> >2.6.15-1.2054_FC5xenU) the problem doesn't occur.

Regards,
Dan.
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