Re: [Xen-users] after centos 5 yum update xen guest won't boot

[jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 05 January 2008 11:46:51 am Peter Peltonen wrote:
> After a yum update my two guests that had been shutdown do not start
> any more. I have two other guests running that seem to work okay but I
> am now afraid that they won't come up again if I restart them.
>
> I am running CentOS5 with kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen. Previously I had
> following xen versions installed:
>
> Oct 14 23:45:10 Updated: xen-libs.i386 3.0.3-25.0.4.el5
> Oct 14 23:46:05 Updated: xen.i386 3.0.3-25.0.4.el5
>
> After a yum update I now have:
>
> Jan 03 22:22:59 Installed: kernel-xen.i686 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
> Jan 03 22:23:55 Updated: xen.i386 3.0.3-41.el5
>
> I have now two guests that won't boot. This is what I get after
> issuing `xm create web04`:
>
> Using config file "/etc/xen/web04".
> Error: destroyDevice() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)

This error looks like a classic mismatch between xen and some other xen 
component. I find it curious that your xen.i386 was updated, but your 
xen-libs was not. (BTW, I'm assuming the yum update was on dom0?) Try poking 
around the Centos update repo to find an update for xen-libs. (If this was a 
dom0 update, then updating the kernel-xen shouldn't affect your domu, since 
you are loading a kernel on the domu image with pygrub.)

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