RE: [Xen-users] Xen failing to boot under Debian Etch. (FATAL TRAP)

["David Morris" <david.morris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps I'm confused by obtuse naming, but it looks to me that you are running 
AMD 64bit kernels and hypervisors on an Intel system. Is this a AMD vs Intel 
compatibility issue?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Ray [mailto:j.ray@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 2:06 AM
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] Xen failing to boot under Debian Etch. 
> (FATAL TRAP)
> 
> 
> Hi,
>       Running xen on a Debian Etch platform and about every 1 
> in 10 boots I
> am getting the following error:
> (XEN) ************************************
> (XEN) CPU0 FATAL TRAP 6 (invalid opcode), ERROR_CODE 0000, IN 
> INTERRUPT
> CONTEXT.
> (XEN) System shutting down -- need manual reset.
> (XEN) ************************************
> 
> (I have attached a file with the full output also of an OK boot and a
> failed one also).
> 
> This is a Quad-Core, Dual CPU system currently running with 4Gb of RAM
> with a Intel S5000PAL server motherboard. I have tried tweaking around
> the APIC options to be bigsmp to no help at all. I am kind of 
> at a loss
> right now as to how to progress. I have upgraded the BIOS to 
> the latest
> revision to no avail also.
> 
> Here are the xen package versions from my system:
> # dpkg -l | egrep '(\||xen)'
> | 
> Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-
> installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                                Version
> Description
> ii  linux-image-2.6-xen-amd64           2.6.18+6etch2
> Linux kernel 2.6 image on AMD64
> ii  linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-amd64      2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2
> Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD64
> ii  linux-image-2.6.18-5-xen-amd64      2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2
> Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD64
> ii  linux-modules-2.6.18-4-xen-amd64    2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2
> Linux 2.6.18 modules on AMD64
> ii  linux-modules-2.6.18-5-xen-amd64    2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2
> Linux 2.6.18 modules on AMD64
> ii  xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-amd64        3.0.3-0-2
> The Xen Hypervisor on AMD64
> ii  xen-ioemu-3.0.3-1                   3.0.3-0-2
> XEN administrative tools
> ii  xen-linux-system-2.6.18-4-xen-amd64 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2
> XEN system with Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD64
> ii  xen-tools                           2.8-2
> Tools to manage debian XEN virtual servers
> ii  xen-utils-3.0.3-1                   3.0.3-0-2
> XEN administrative tools
> ii  xen-utils-common                    3.0.3-0-2
> XEN administrative tools - common files
> 
> And here is my grub boot section:
> title           Xen 3.0.3-1-amd64 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel
> 2.6.18-5-xen-amd64
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /xen-3.0.3-1-amd64.gz com2=19200,8n1 console=com2
> module          /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-xen-amd64 
> root=/dev/mapper/hornet-root
> ro console=ttyS1,19200 console=tty0
> module          /initrd.img-2.6.18-5-xen-amd64
> 
> If I can help with any further information please let me know. Anyone
> any ideas on how to fix this problem?
> 
> (I will start running the Intel Platform Test Suite to check 
> its not the
> hardware, but I doubt it is since this happens the same on 
> two identical
> boxes)
> 
> -- 
> James Ray.                          <j.ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Computing Services
> Queen Mary, University of London
> 

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