Re: [Xen-users] Cannot start domains after FC6->F7 upgrade

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 29 June 2007, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
> > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> >> Gerry Reno wrote:
> >>> I just upgrade a server from FC6->F7 using 'yum update'.  Everything
> >>> went perfectly.  But now I cannot start any Xen domain.
> >>> xm create /etc/xen/xen0 -c
> >>> I am getting the error:
> >>> Error: Unable to connect to xend: No such file or directory.  Is
> >>> xend running?
> >>>
> >>> And of course I check xend with:
> >>> service xend status and it says [OK].  So then I restart xend but
> >>> still I cannot start domains.
> >>>
> >>> How do I get my domains to start?
> >>
> >> Did you reboot with the new Xen kernel? Or did you pull your kernel
> >> or assemble it form elsewhere?
> >
> > Yes.  Standard xen kernel.  But had to use the FC6 xen kernel because
> > the F7 xen kernel crashes on our hardware.
>
> Huh. Running a more recent Xen release with an older kernel on Fom0 is
> kind of begging for incompatibility, I'd suspect.
>
> What is in /var/log/xen/*? And what does "yum list extras" say, in case
> you pulled non-FC6 or non-FC7 packages while working with things? And
> have you tried building any new images and looking for differences in
> the config files? FC6 was xen 3.0.3, FC7 is Xen 3.1.0.

It's breaking because of the version mismatch you suspected.

Looks like this problem is being mostly discussed at the Fedora bug, btw.

> > I've opened a Fedora bug:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246169

Cheers
Mark

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