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Paul Tomblin
Asked: 2010-03-04 15:26:31 +0800 CST

domUs hang in start up, Debian Lenny

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My server box has a hardware problem, so I unracked it and brought it home. While it was home, I figured it was time to upgrade from Etch to Lenny. Unfortunately, now that I've done so, all my domUs hang while starting up. I even tried making a new domU using 

xen-create-image --lvm xen-space --hostname=test1 --size=8Gb --dist=lenny --memory=512M --dhcp

and when it starts up, it hangs in startup as well. The last message on the console is 

Starting periodic command scheduler: crond.

The last thing in xend.log is

INFO (XendDomain:1165) Domain test1 (7) unpaused.
[ 5526.429198] blkback: ring-ref 8, event-channel 8, protcol 1 (x86_32-abi)
[ 5526.441788] blkback: ring-ref 9, event-channel 9, protcol 1 (x86_32-abi)
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    it's not hung, it just isn't outputting anything to the console. you need to add the following to your kernel command line

    console=hvc0 xencons=tty

    you can then fix it by editing inittab I believe...

    http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#Nologinpromptwhenusing.60xmconsole.60

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