[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#675055: [Xen-API] Bug#675055: xcp-xapi: xe-edit-bootloader does not compatible with new /dev/sm
Mike McClurg
mike.mcclurg at citrix.com
Tue May 29 16:34:30 UTC 2012
On 29/05/12 16:22, George Shuklin wrote:
> Package: xcp-xapi
> Version: 1.3.2-6
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
>
> /usr/lib/xcp/bin/xe-edit-bootloader failing with following message:
>
> /usr/lib/xcp/bin/xe-edit-bootloader -u 19f66083-e776-70d1-1808-3712688ad138
> Creating dom0 VBD: 0fdb952e-92ff-4b53-dd49-8d54b2268787
> Plugging VBD:
> Waiting for /dev/sm/backend/4c15ea03-5d70-938e-8265-d5424c0fda5e/963afb9a-9ceb-410f-8554-8be9fb70e7e0: . done
> Mounting filesystem: failed
> Partitions in the VDI are:
>
> brw------- 1 root root 252, 0 May 29 19:13 /dev/sm/backend/4c15ea03-5d70-938e-8265-d5424c0fda5e/963afb9a-9ceb-410f-8554-8be9fb70e7e0
>
> You can use the -p option to specify a partition number to mount.
> Unplugging VBD: . done
> root at lab-xh3:~# /usr/lib/xcp/bin/xe-edit-bootloader -u 19f66083-e776-70d1-1808-3712688ad138 -p 1
> Creating dom0 VBD: 445a1179-a947-b884-8cbe-06ea1515ee38
> Plugging VBD:
> Waiting for /dev/sm/backend/4c15ea03-5d70-938e-8265-d5424c0fda5e/963afb9a-9ceb-410f-8554-8be9fb70e7e01: .....Device /dev/sm/backend/4c15ea03-5d70-938e-8265-d5424c0fda5e/963afb9a-9ceb-410f-8554-8be9fb70e7e01 not found.
>
>
> Reason is that older model creates /dev/xvd* devices (see message history for bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674088 ) and xe-edit-bootloader just add partition number to device (/dev/xvdb -> /dev/xvdb1). With new sm model this is not true: script must call kpartx to probe partition table of attached VDI.
Thanks for reporting this (and everything else ;) ). I'll file a bug
with upstream xapi.
Mike
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