Subject: Re: disk problems with xen3
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Ari Suutari <ari@suutari.iki.fi>
List: port-xen
Date: 07/04/2006 12:14:32
Hi,

Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:01:20AM +0300, Ari Suutari wrote:
>> After doing some digging I found out that scripts/block is called
>> with $xstatus values 5 and 1 instead of 6 and 2. I modified the
> 
> This is not normal. state 1 is when the xbd is just created by the 'xm create',
> before the kernel sees it. It should quickly be moved to 2 by kernel.
> The same way, the kernel should move state 5 to 6 when the xbd is gone.

	Ok, I put the original "block" script back.
> 
> I've seen this after issues with xend, where it looked like the kernel and
> userland were using a different xenstore (so kernel didn't see changes
> from userland and vice-versa). The only way I know about this is to reboot
> dom0.

	I rebooted dom0 but it didn't help. I also tried deleting /var/run/xen*
	and rebooting. Still same messages when trying to start domU.

	Ari S.