diff -r 8f66a16efee0 tools/libxl/libxl.c
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl.c	Tue Nov 02 16:08:56 2010 +0100
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.c	Thu Nov 04 16:30:27 2010 +0100
@@ -2787,17 +2787,15 @@ retry_transaction:
             rc = ERROR_FAIL;
             goto out;
         }
-        rc = 0;
-        goto out;
     }
 
     rc = libxl_domain_info(ctx, &info, 0);
     if (rc < 0)
-        return rc;
+        goto out;
 
     rc = libxl_get_physinfo(ctx, &physinfo);
     if (rc < 0)
-        return rc;
+        goto out;
 
     libxl__xs_write(gc, t, target_path, "%"PRIu32,
             (uint32_t) info.current_memkb);
@@ -2816,10 +2814,12 @@ retry_transaction:
     rc = 0;
 
 out:
-    if (!xs_transaction_end(ctx->xsh, t, 0))
+    if (!xs_transaction_end(ctx->xsh, t, 0)) {
         if (errno == EAGAIN)
             goto retry_transaction;
-
+        else
+            rc = ERROR_FAIL;
+    }
 
     return rc;
 }