Re: [Xen-users] Infinite loop shutting down xendomains

["John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Athanasios.  I am running xen-2.0.7 with 2.6.11.12 in dom0 and
2.4.31, I believe, in the problematic domUs.  Interesting that it might
be a kernel problem.  Alas, mine are heavily patched so I hesitate to
change them - John

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 12:20 +0200, Athanasios Floros wrote:
> Dear John,
> 
> I think I may have good news for you.  I have not received an answer or a 
> solution either, however I made some modifications in my system that work out 
> fine so far.  However, I have not rebooted my system too many times since the 
> modifications, so I can't be sure that it will be stable in the long term 
> -but the system does shutdown/reboot flawlessly since the modifications.
> 
> I was experiencing the problem with the default Xen installation of Suse 
> Professional 9.3 (including the updates available through YOU).  This means 
> that I was using Xen version 2.0.5c-4 with kernel 2.6.11.4-21.10.
> 
> I removed these packages form my system and installed the latest version of 
> Xen (and kernel) from the packages found here:
> 
> http://www.suse.de/~garloff/linux/xen/
> 
> So in effect, I now use Xen 2.0.7 and kernel 2.6.11.4.21-8 (both in dom0 and 
> in the unprivileged domains).  This seems to have solved the problems during 
> shutdown/reboot, despite the fact that the kernel is somewhat older version 
> that the one officially suplied by Suse.
> 
> The only unfortunate side effect of this setup, is that YOU now reports that 
> "there are security updates available", because there is a newer Xen kernel 
> available for my system.  I will put up with this and will not try a kernel 
> update, as long as my current setup works without any problems.
> 
> I understand that you would not like to experiment a lot with your production 
> system, so if I find out about any issues with this solution I will do my 
> best to keep you posted.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Athanasios
> 
> 
> On Saturday 25 February 2006 08:44, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:40 +0200, Athanasios Floros wrote:
> > > John,
> > >
> > > Did you ever find a solution to this problem?  I am experiencing the
> > > exact same problem (xendomains stop hangs almost always during shutdown,
> > > but succeeds if called from a terminal before shutdown).
> > >
> > > Athanasios
> >
> > <snip>
> > No, I've received neither an answer nor a resolution and I am quite
> > concerned since we are running this in production.
> >
> > Is anyone else experiencing this? - John
> 
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