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

[Adrian Chadd]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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.

If you're like me and run non-Redhat guests under FC5 + redhat xen kernels
you'll have to do it maunally:

/etc/inittab: (assuming you're using getty and not already using 'co'
in your inittab)

co:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 xvc0

and add xvc0 to /etc/securetty so you can login as root on the console.

michelle:~# uname -a
Linux michelle 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5xenU #1 SMP Sat Oct 14 18:06:38 EDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
michelle:~# cat /etc/debian_version
3.1
michelle:~#




Adrian