[Fedora-xen] kernel-xen0-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 amusingly unhappy

[Robert Story]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:08:21 +0100 Daniel wrote:
DPB> We had a little snafu when pushing out the updates. The 2.6.18 kernel
DPB> which was pushed out includes Xen 3.0.3 APIs, but we forgot to push
DPB> the corresponding userspace bits (xen & libvirt RPMs). Because upstream
DPB> Xen developers saw fit to break ABI compatability for Dom0 control APIs
DPB> in 3.0.3 the older bits don't work :-(
DPB> 
DPB> We've got the neccessary updates in  the 'updates-testing' repository
DPB> as of a few hours ago, so if you want to try them out use:
DPB> 
DPB>   yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install xen libvirt

What versions *should* we have? I tried this yum update, but it didn't grab
anything new. I'm still seeing the "No such file or directory" error for all
xm commands..


# uname -a
Linux server 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5xen0 #1 SMP Sat Oct 14 17:49:47 EDT 2006 i686
athlon i386 GNU/Linux

# rpm -q xen libvirt
xen-3.0.2-5.fc5
libvirt-0.1.7-2.FC5
# yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install xen libvirt
core                                                                 [1/4]
extras                                                               [2/4]
updates-released                                                     [3/4]
updates-testing                                                      [4/4]
Reading repository metadata in from local files

Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do


# service xend start
Starting xend:                                             [  OK  ]

# xm list
Error: Error connecting to xend: No such file or directory.  Is xend running?


# ps -ef|grep xen
root         9     7  0 Oct26 ?        00:00:00 [xenwatch]
root        10     7  0 Oct26 ?        00:00:00 [xenbus]
root      2600     1  0 Oct26 ?        00:00:00 python /usr/sbin/xend start
root      2601  2600  0 Oct26 ?        00:00:00 python /usr/sbin/xend start