[Fedora-xen] Boot fails with 2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:03:51AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:45:59PM +1000, Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> > Hi Daniel
> > 
> > Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > >On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:57:07AM +1000, Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> > >>I have just completed a clean install of FC7 test 4 on a custom built 
> > >>machine:
> > >>
> > >>MB: Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
> > >>CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
> > >>Video: Asus EN7900GS
> > >>RAM: Veritech DDR2 800 1 Gig x 2
> > >>HD: Pair of Maxtor 120 Gig SATA drives running as a mirrored RAID array 
> > >>through the hardware controller on the motherboard
> > >>
> > >>The install ran fine, but when I boot the Fedora xen kernel 
> > >>(2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen) it crashes during the boot process.
> > >>
> > >>If I boot "Fedora base (2.6.20-1.3104.fc7)", then it boots fine.
> > >>
> > >>When booting the Fedora xen kernel the last output in the console is:
> > >>
> > >>Kernel panic: Not syncing - Aiee, killing interupt handler!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>I have seen a thread in this list talking about problems with the 
> > >>2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen kernel.  Can anyone suggest what I may be able to 
> > >>do to work around this problem?  Is there a different xen kernel that I 
> > >>could be using with FC7?  If so, where would I get it from?
> > >
> > >You don't mention what architecture you're installing ? i686 or x86_64 ?
> > >We just built a new kernel into rawhide which 2.6.20-2925.7.fc7xen which
> > >fixes a bunch of things, including checksum corruption in networking and
> > >SMP support in 64-bit. This still has a major outstanding problem which
> > >affects many 32-bit machines though - debugging is ongoing & trying to
> > >get it resolved before F7 GA.  So anyway, if you're using the 32-bit
> > >kernel I imagine you've hit the known panic problems we're investigating.
> > 
> > Sorry, should have mentioned, it is i686.  So as you say I am hitting 
> > the known panic problems.
> > 
> > Thanks for the explanation, I guess that I will put this aside until you 
> > get the new kernel running for F7 GA.
> 
> FYI, we think we've got the problem fixed & have a new build available.
> If anyone is running rawhide with Xen and seeing crashes/hangs/wierd
> behaviour, please give the 2.6.20-2925.8.fc7 kernel a try. Its not in 
> rawhide YUM repos yet, but you can it from Koji
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel-xen-2.6/2.6.20/2925.8.fc7/
> 
> 
> NB. this requires xen-3.1.0-0.rc7.1.fc7  userspace.
> 

Hi!

Does this fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234008 ?

If it does, plans to fix it for fc5/fc6?

Thanks!

-- Pasi

> Dan.
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