[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#1005176: xen-utils-4 library dependencies need update

[Hans van Kranenburg]

tags 1005176 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Elliott, :)

On 2/8/22 14:19, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> Package: src:xen Version: 4.16.0-1~exp1
> 
> I'm guilty of pulling in later Xen source and building it based on
> the experimental 4.16 packaging.  As such this may actually only be
> an issue for a package version beyond 4.16.0.
> 
> I'm uncertain which it is, but xen-utils-4.16 appears to need an
> update to one or more of libxencall1, libxenevtchn1,
> libxenforeignmemory1, libxengnttab1 and/or libxentoollog1 in order to
> function.
> 
> During my initial update I merely updated libxenmisc4.16 and 
> libxenstore4.  In this condition something (I suspect xenstored) was 
> rather broken and things were unusable.
> 
> Notably `xl list` was hanging.  I was unable to get VMs started and
> it felt like everything wanted to explode.

This one is really too vague to be able to react to in any sensible manner.

Reading it was a fun experience though. It made me think of creating a
bingo card with 30 possible things that a bug reporter can say that are 
a synonym of "it doesn't work".

I hope this message does not come across as offensive, it's in no way 
meant as such. :D

I do appreciate your contributions and you sharing thoughts about 
possible things that could be done and could be improved.

However, I hope you understand that there's no way we can help when you 
use something else than the actual packages in Debian, do not provide 
any error messages seen, and describe what you see instead as "it felt 
like everything wanted to explode".

For me, Xen 4.16 does run OK on my test servers, FWIW.

Have fun,
Hans