[Fedora-xen] System hang when starting cups in Xen

[Keith Sharp]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 12:39 +0100, Andre Vehreschild wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the current xen-kernel on a FC6 and tried to boot it on my Intel 
> Core 2 Duo. Everthing seems fine until the system tries to start the 
> printer-service cups for a locally connect parallel port printer. It simply 
> hangs forever. After a reboot, I checked if the non xen-kernel is able to 
> boot: It is. Next I went into the interactive mode, when rebooting into xen. 
> I neglected the start of cups and the system continued to start up upto the 
> yum-updatesd. Then hanging again. 
> 
> Do I miss something? Do have to configure something before I am able to 
> install the rpms as provided by Fedora?
> 
> I use Fedora Core 6 with the most recent updates kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 
> on an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 1GB Ram on a Gigabyte 965G Board.

I saw something similar a while back and opened Red Hat bug 151491:

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151491

which led to Xen bug 13:

	http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13

The resolution for me was getting ACPI support into the Xen kernels.
FC6 + Xen works fine on the same hardware.

Keith.