[Fedora-xen] Xen issues, was Re: FC6 is frozen

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Jesse Keating wrote:

> We're now into deep freeze state for FC6.  Any new packages brought in will
> need two nods from Bill Nottingham, Jeremy Katz, and Myself.  The only things
> that should be coming in now will be critical crasher bugs, multilib
> conflicts, or installation blockers.

hmm. I have an FC 5.92 + yum updates running 2.6.18-1.2724.fc6xen with
xen that is completely unusable and gives me non-fatal kernel panics
and non-working networking (compared to 2.6.18-1.2724.fc6 not giving
panics and a working networking). xenguest-install.py also fails, and
the resulting kernels for xenu's hang on boot.

Is this the planned kernel for fc6?

Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel: Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 383k
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel: BUG: warning at kernel/lockdep.c:1814/trace_hardirqs_on() (Not tainted)
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon rpc.statd[2001]: statd running as root. chown /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm to choose different user
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel:  [<c0405666>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x177
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel:  [<c0405c6b>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel:  [<c0405ca9>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel:  [<c043637e>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xa4/0x120
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel:  [<c0404e5f>] restore_all+0x37/0x3a
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel: DWARF2 unwinder stuck at restore_all+0x37/0x3a
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel: Leftover inexact backtrace:
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel: Inexact backtrace:
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel:  [<c0405c6b>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel:  [<c0405ca9>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel:  [<c043637e>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xa4/0x120
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel:  [<c0404e5f>] restore_all+0x37/0x3a
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
Oct  2 17:54:25 echelon kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20

I also got various problems with this board and P-ATA. A "check media"
works fine and gives me the go ahead, but installation then gets "IDE:
unknown opcode" errors. I had to disable all cpu features and peripherals
to get through the install. Though some of this might be ASUS specific
and unfixable. It tends to pick weird (shared) IRQ's for the P-ATA disk
controller. I am not using the SATA controller.

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01)

Seems all my bugs end up with Herbert these days eh? :)

Paul