[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: [Pkg-xen-changes] r55 - trunk/debian [u]

[Julien Danjou]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 07:37:34PM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote:
> Mmm... so for you it only works with udev from backports.org...  For me instead
> it only works if I only have hotplug from sarge... Mmmm... good shape... :(

I also tried to remove udev and leave hotplug, and it did not work.
But it was maybe me.
 
> And if you didn't what happened? We cannot count on users doing that! (Even if
> it's only from unstable...)

If I did not tweak the prerm script, the upgrade cannot happen since the
prerm script fails.

That's the:
invoke xend stop
invoke xendomains stop

that fails, I think we know why :-)

> Was it a problem if it failed? Did it refuse to complete the upgrade?

Yes, if a post/pre rm/inst script fails, apt stops.

> In that case we should probably, if we can fix this... The best way to do it
> would be to only start xend if the current hypervisor is a supported version...
> Is there any way to check the version of the running hypervisor?

It can be checked in python.
Or we can also make "xend start failure" non fatal with something like:
invoke xend start || true

(We should check policy on that sorts of ugly things :-)

> > However it is not working for me, it seems I have a kernel/hardware
> > problem with the kernel I compiled... :-/ I downgraded back
> > (successfully *g*) to Xen 2.0.6 for now... But this if off topic.
> > 
> 
> I'm sorry! :(

For the record, I solved it by booting the xen hypervizor with noapic
and acpi=off options, and after that I had a UDP checksum error, so I
turned off tx checksum (ethtool -K eth0 tx off). :-/
Thanks googling.

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