[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#721946: Bug#721946: xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64: dom0_mem cannot exceed some value

[Alessandro Vesely]

On Fri 06/Sep/2013 17:05:15 +0200 Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> Both sets of log contain stuff like:
> 
>> Sep  6 15:22:53 pcale kernel: [  126.828195] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x80000 action 0x6 frozen
>> Sep  6 15:22:53 pcale kernel: [  126.828199] ata4: SError: { 10B8B }
>> Sep  6 15:22:53 pcale kernel: [  126.828201] ata4.00: failed command: SMART
>> Sep  6 15:22:53 pcale kernel: [  126.828205] ata4.00: cmd b0/d8:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0
>> Sep  6 15:22:53 pcale kernel: [  126.828206]          res 40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>> Sep  6 15:22:53 pcale kernel: [  126.828207] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
>> Sep  6 15:22:53 pcale kernel: [  126.828211] ata4: hard resetting link
>> Sep  6 15:22:54 pcale kernel: [  127.320197] ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
>> Sep  6 15:22:54 pcale kernel: [  127.321358] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
>> Sep  6 15:22:54 pcale kernel: [  127.336200] ata4: EH complete 
> 
> Is your disk dying?

Died already.  It was just an 80G Western Digital of 2005, but it
contained the Windows XP install that I wanted to run under Xen :-(

> Does this happen if you boot the exact same Linux kernel without Xen
> underneath?

Yes, but was never mounted.  Only update-grub reported read errors.