[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#915063: xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64: xen 4.8 fails to boot

[gregory bahde]

Package: src:xen
Version: 4.8.4+xsa273+shim4.10.1+xsa273-1+deb9u10
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
I installed xen hypervisor 4.8 and rebooted to Xen, I am used to xen and run it
on servers
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
try grub kernel xen parameters (iommu )
   * What was the outcome of this action?
blackscreen at gdm3 login session
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (11, 'testing'), (10, 'experimental'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 depends on no packages.

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 recommends:
ii  xen-utils-4.8  4.8.4+xsa273+shim4.10.1+xsa273-1+deb9u10

xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 suggests no packages.

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