[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#682979: xcp-xapi: VM not starting, tasks not cancellable

[Andreas Pflug]

Package: xcp-xapi
Version: 1.3.2-9
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I've following mostly the xcp-xapi/README.Debian instructions after installing it with apt-get -t wheezy

network.conf is configured for bridge, xenbrN are functioning and shown with xe network-list
A single SR is present, created with ext on a local LVM. For debugging purposes, all ISO and local ISO SRs have been removed.
A VM is created according to README.Debian. Everything looks fine when examined with XenManager6 or OpenXenCenter.

When starting the VM with xe vm-start uuid=<uuid>, xe will not finish.

xe task-list shows two tasks: VM.start with 0.300 progress, and VBD.unplug (0.000 progress) as a subtask of VM.start, created 16-17 seconds after VM.Start.
Both tasks are in the state pending, and can not be cancelled with xe task-cancel force=true.
list_domains shows that the domain has been created. After xe-toolstack-restart two independent pending tasks are present: VBD.unplug and VBD.plug, both resist cancelling as well. To get those tasks wiped out, I need to reboot.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (100, 'stable-updates'), (100, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xcp-xapi depends on:
ii  hwd 0.230-1                              hardware identification / configur
ii  lib 2.13-33                              Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lib 1.1.1-6.1                            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  lib 2.17.2-9                             Universally Unique ID library
ii  lib 2.0.90-1                             VHD file format access library
ii  lib 4.1.3~rc1+hg-20120614.a9c0a89c08f2-4 Public libs for Xen
ii  lib 4.0.1-2                              Xenstore communications library fo
ii  lsb 3.2-23.2squeeze1                     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  pci 1:3.1.9-5                            Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pyt 2.7.3~rc2-1                          interactive high-level object-orie
ii  pyt 1.3.2-9                              Xen Cloud Platform - XenAPI Python
ii  stu 3:4.29-1                             dummy upgrade package
ii  stu 3:4.29-1                             Universal SSL tunnel for network d
ii  xcp 0.1-4                                XenAPI's bootloader for EL-based g
ii  xcp 0.5.2-3+b1                           Fork-and-exec daemon for xapi
ii  xcp 1.3.2-9                              Xen Cloud Platform - network confi
ii  xcp 1.3.2-9                              Xen Cloud Platform - memory balloo
ii  xcp 0.1.1-2                              storage backends for XCP
ii  xcp 1.3.2-9                              Xen Cloud Platform - feature daemo
ii  xcp 1.3.2-9                              Xen Cloud Platform - command-line 
ii  xen 4.1.3~rc1+hg-20120614.a9c0a89c08f2-4 Xen Hypervisor on AMD64
ii  xen 4.1.3~rc1+hg-20120614.a9c0a89c08f2-4 XEN administrative tools
ii  zli 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3                     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xcp-xapi recommends:
ii  cifs-utils                    2:4.5-2    Common Internet File System utilit
ii  xcp-guest-templates           0.1-4      Guest template generator for XCP
ii  xcp-vncterm                   0.1-2      Provides VNC service for XCP guest