[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#388486: xen-utils-common: upgrade new 2.6.17-2-xen breaks create domU until modprobe netloop nloopbacks=n

[Sylvain Amrani]

Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 3.0+hg11292-2
Severity: normal


After a recent etch upgrade (2.6.17, xen-3.0.2) I was unable to "xm create" until I
"modprobe netloop nloopbacks=10"

Error was network-bridge couln't create vif interface (backend not found).

brctl addbr ... fails because of no free netloop device.
passing more nloopbacks device to the module fixed the problem.

I use :
(network-script network-bridge)
(vif-script vif-bridge)

Maybe this occurs because of differents options to the kernel compilation.

I open this bug because it appens during a upgrade process

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages xen-utils-common depends on:
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-15     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

xen-utils-common recommends no packages.

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