[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#655301: Bug#655301: Bug#655301: Bug#655301: Bug#655301: xcp-xapi fails to start

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 02:47 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>> But the problem is, xcp-xapi wants to have xend disabled.
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>> So I disabled the xend init file and then ran into this problem.
>
> No wonder why then! Nobody ever wrote/said that you should do that. The
> xend init.d script does a lot more than just starting xend. It also:
> - modprobe the xenfs and xen-evtchn kernel modules
> - mounts /proc/xen as xenfs
> - Starts xenconsoled
> - Starts xenstored
>
> If the above isn't done, then there's no way that XCP, or even Xen, will
> ever work! The only thing that should be disabled is starting xend, all
> the rest should stay.
>

What do you mean by "disable starting xend" ?

For now, just calling the xend stop in the xapi init script should fix
the problem.

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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