[Pkg-xen-devel] Possible critical Xen issue on Buster

[Garrett Reid]

Hey Xen devel team,

I’ve never mailed a developer list before, but I’m worried I may have stumbled across a bad Xen/Debian packaging bug. My confidence is somewhere above “just mail -user” and below “open a bug in xen-system-amd64”. Apologies if this is the wrong usage of the list.

I’ve updated to Buster, and my Xen kernel no longer boots. I believe it’s because Xen only offers versions 4.11 and 4.8, while Debian’s kernel images only offer 4.19 and 4.9. I’ve tried various matches between linux image and Xen version, and none of them will make it past loading initrd. (Booting non-Xen works fine)

I’ll admit this is a cross-post of https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/02/msg00890.html; I sent that email earlier when I was less convinced that this was a bug. As I’ve continued to poke at the problem, I’m more convinced it’s not user error. And again, sorry if this is the wrong reporting mechanism; I wanted to alert to what seems to (to me) to be a critical bug.

- Garrett