[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#743977: drbd8: Xen resource script fails when using the xl stack

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos]

clone 743977 -1
reassign -1 xen
retitle -1 pygrub not working when a disk script is in use
tags 743977 +pending
thanks

Hi Arno,

On 00:31 Wed 09 Apr     , Arno Töll wrote:
> Source: drbd8
> Severity: important
> 
> The DRBD resource script for Xen (/etc/xen/scripts/block-drbd) does not work when
> using the xl toolstack anymore, which is exclusively available in xen 4.2 and
> later (i.e. the current Testing).
> 
> First of all, it needs the patch mentioned in [1] for basic support. However, when
> using it in conjunction with pygrub, it fails to find its boot device, whereas
> this worked fine earlier.

These are actually two separate bugs. The first bug is indeed addressed 
with the patch you mention. The pygrub malfunction is a bug probably in 
Xen and already known to the Xen devs:

  http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-01/msg01523.html

For this reason, I'm cloning this bug and reassigning the clone to xen.

Regards,
Apollon