[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#866952: Bug#866952: xen-system-amd64: Xen 4.8 Install on Stretch Crashes on Boot

[Bill MacAllister]

Thanks very much for you quick response.

On Monday, July 3, 2017 7:34:30 AM PDT, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
>
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 03:37:40PM -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote:
>> Package: xen-system-amd64
>> Version: 4.8.1-1+deb9u1
>> Severity: critical
>> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> This is incorrect, it only breaks itself.

This made me smile. I would argue that the system is not up long enough 
for us to know what is working and what is broken. You are certainly 
right Xen definitely is broken.

>> [   17.037855] installing Xen timer for CPU 8
>> [   17.086802] random: fast init done
>> [   17.128477] smpboot: Package 1 of CPU 8 exceeds BIOS package data 1.
>
> Please try upgrading your firmware first.  It seems to provide incorrect
> data.

I should have thought of this, thanks for the pointer. I have downloaded 
the latest from Dell and applied it. Unfortunately it did not move the
problem.

What do you think I should try next?

Bill

> Bastian