[Xen-users] Working hotplug, but still timing out waiting for vbd device

[Charles Duffy <cduffy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running Xen3 7775 with udev 073 (which was a PITA to get working, as 
the initrd I've been running for quite some time uses an older one -- 
but that's an entirely different story). My dom0 is Gentoo-based.
When I try to start a DomU, it times out waiting for hotplug-based 
notification, as per the following:
DEBUG (DevController:69) Waiting for devices vif.
DEBUG (DevController:75) Waiting for 0.
DEBUG (DevController:69) Waiting for devices usb.
DEBUG (DevController:69) Waiting for devices vbd.
DEBUG (DevController:75) Waiting for 769.
ERROR (SrvBase:87) Request wait_for_devices failed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"/usr/src/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/lib64/python/xen/web/SrvBase.py", 
line 85, in perform
    return op_method(op, req)
  File 
"/usr/src/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/lib64/python/xen/xend/server/SrvDomain.py", 
line 68, in op_wait_for_devices
    return self.dom.waitForDevices()
  File 
"/usr/src/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/lib64/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", 
line 1200, in waitForDevices
    self.waitForDevices_(c)
  File 
"/usr/src/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/lib64/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", 
line 856, in waitForDevices_
    return self.getDeviceController(deviceClass).waitForDevices()
  File 
"/usr/src/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/lib64/python/xen/xend/server/DevController.py", 
line 71, in waitForDevices
    return map(self.waitForDevice, self.deviceIDs())
  File 
"/usr/src/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/lib64/python/xen/xend/server/DevController.py", 
line 80, in waitForDevice
    raise VmError( ("Device %s (%s) could not be connected. "
VmError: Device 769 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not 
working
However, based on the following passage from /var/log/messages, the 
relevant vbd backend *really did* start up and try to provide 
notification of its new state:
logger: /etc/xen/scripts/block: bind XENBUS_PATH=backend/vbd/1/769
logger: /etc/xen/scripts/block: bind XENBUS_PATH=backend/vbd/1/770
logger: /etc/xen/scripts/block: Writing 
backend/vbd/1/770/physical-device 0xfd04 backend/vbd/1/770/node 
/dev/data/demo-1-swap to xenstore.
changing physical-device not supported
changing physical-device not supported
logger: /etc/xen/scripts/block: Writing backend/vbd/1/770/hotplug-status 
connected to xenstore.
changing physical-device not supported
logger: /etc/xen/scripts/block: Writing 
backend/vbd/1/769/physical-device 0xfd03 backend/vbd/1/769/node 
/dev/data/demo-1 to xenstore.
logger: /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge: bridge=xenbr0 up 
XENBUS_PATH=backend/vif/1/0
logger: /etc/xen/scripts/block: Writing backend/vbd/1/769/hotplug-status 
connected to xenstore.
changing physical-device not supported
changing physical-device not supported
changing physical-device not supported
device vif1.0 entered promiscuous mode
xenbr0: port 3(vif1.0) entering learning state
logger: /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge: Writing 
backend/vif/1/0/hotplug-status connected to xenstore.
xenbr0: topology change detected, propagating
xenbr0: port 3(vif1.0) entering forwarding state
logger: /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge: Successful vif-bridge operation for 
vif1.0, bridge xenbr0.
Note the "changing physical-device not supported" messages. My disks are 
indeed specified as phy devices, as per the following:
disk = [ 'phy:data/demo-1,hda1,w', 'phy:data/demo-1-swap,hda2,w' ]

However, I'd hope that being specified as physical devices wouldn't 
impede hotplug notification.
Any suggestions as to why I would be seeing the present behaviour?


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