On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:56:33PM +1300, Steven Ellis wrote: > I've recently upgraded a Centos 5.3 machine to Centos 5.5. The hardware > isn't HVM capabile so I'm only running para-virt guests. > > Using a vanilla i386 kernel boots without, but the newer kernel-xen locks > up the Dom0 after a couple of minute. I'm only booting into single user > mode for these tests so no VMs are active. > > * kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 - no issues > * kernel-xen-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 - lock up > * kernel-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 - no issues > > For the moment I've switched back to the older Xen kernel, athough I'm > still running the newer Xen Hypervisor. > Please set up a serial console and capture the full error/crash messages and post the log here. Examples here: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole -- Pasi > My current Xen packages are > > * xen-3.0.3-105.el5_5.5 > * kernel-xen-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 > * kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 > * kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2 > * xen-libs-3.0.3-105.el5_5.5 > * kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 > * kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 > * xen-devel-3.0.3-105.el5_5.5 > > Prior to the upgrade I had the following installed under Centos 5.3 > > * kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 > * kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 > * xen-libs-3.0.3-80.el5_3.2 > * xen-devel-3.0.3-80.el5_3.2 > * kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2 > * kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 > * kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 > * xen-3.0.3-80.el5_3.2 > > Booting Dom0 with kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 everything appears to > work normally and all of my Guests are up and running. > > If I boot with kernel-xen-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 the boot normally gets to > around udev and the system locks up. On a couple of occasions it did mange > to boot but reported some files were corrupted. I'm worried that there is > an issue running this kernel where the root file system is LVM on top of > Raid 1. > > Anyone on this list have tips on diagnosing the issue, or come across a > similar problem themselves. > > Steve > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt