[Bug 389944] New: booting xen results in system freeze / hang
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 Summary: booting xen results in system freeze / hang Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Xen AssignedTo: cgriffin@novell.com ReportedBy: willem@neteyes.nl QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Beta-Customer Hi, Trying to install and boot with latest xen kernel (2.6.25.3-2) results in my system freezing during boot (dell D520). System is non responsive and need to be shutdown by using the power button. There is a slight difference when booting to init level 3 compaired to level 5, but runlevel 3 boot also stalls. There are no evident errors & I will need help to troubleshoot. installed xen packages; xen-3.2.1_16881_01-8 xen-tools-3.2.1_16881_01-8 xen-doc-pdf-3.2.1_16881_01-8 kernel-xen-2.6.25.3-2 xen-doc-html-3.2.1_16881_01-8 xen-libs-3.2.1_16881_01-8 I'll try to do some more tests and will attach my boot and message logs. Cheers, Wj -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User willem@neteyes.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c1 --- Comment #1 from Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> 2008-05-13 15:01:35 MST --- Disabled xend, xendomains and firewall service. Boot still freezes when starting HAL daemon. See log attached. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User willem@neteyes.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c2 --- Comment #2 from Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> 2008-05-13 15:03:19 MST --- Created an attachment (id=214904) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=214904) prev boot log when loading xen -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #214904|application/octet-stream |text/plain mime type| | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 Charles Arnold <carnold@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |carnold@novell.com, lbendixs@novell.com AssignedTo|cgriffin@novell.com |jbeulich@novell.com QAContact|qa@suse.de |jdouglas@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User jbeulich@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c3 Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |willem@neteyes.nl --- Comment #3 from Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> 2008-05-14 09:01:23 MST --- We'll first need full messages (kernel and hypervisor), which given the condition you'll need to collect over serial. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User willem@neteyes.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c4 --- Comment #4 from Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> 2008-05-17 04:06:29 MST --- Ok & looking forward to learning to do this ;) Have Google'd around a bit but am not sure what would be the best way to collect over serial? Do I need to attach another system? Or can I boot using certain switches that will write all output to file and screen? Any chance in pointing me to relevant info or howto's? Thanks! Wj -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User jbeulich@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c5 --- Comment #5 from Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> 2008-05-19 01:56:54 MST --- Generally you need to connect your machine to a second one via serial cable, then specify "console=vga,com1 com1=115200" as (perhaps additional) parameters on your Xen command line. To collect kernel messages, too, you may need to also specify "xencons=xvc" on the kernel command line. (Your best bet in searching would probably have been looking at other bugs here.) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User willem@neteyes.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c6 --- Comment #6 from Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> 2008-05-19 14:21:21 MST --- Hello Jan, Thanks for the info & I was hoping for a way to do it without an extra system as I don't have the required serial-to-serial cable :/ I've reinstalled my system with Beta2 & latest factory updates to make sure it's not a faulty setup. I'll let you know how it goes and see if I can get my hands on the cable! :) ps. thanks for the tip, Indeed I found similar posts here on the matter. Getting wiser every day. ;) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User willem@neteyes.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c7 --- Comment #7 from Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> 2008-05-19 15:21:37 MST --- Well, reinstall did not help, same issue is still there. It might be of interest to know that after forcing the network service not to start (chkconfig network -f) the boot progressed further than usual.. up to the point that a message about starting peth0 appeared. Could this indicate a conflict with the xen kernel combined with my network setup? I'll attach the boot.msg when booting with network service set to off. I'll still try to get that serial cable but hoping this is a new lead? Cheers, Wj -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User willem@neteyes.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c8 --- Comment #8 from Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> 2008-05-19 15:24:00 MST --- Created an attachment (id=216623) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=216623) boot log when booting without network service enabled -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User jdouglas@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c9 --- Comment #9 from Jason Douglas <jdouglas@novell.com> 2008-05-19 15:54:28 MST --- In addition to disabling the network service, it would be interesting to see what happens if you disable the xen networking script as well. To do this, edit /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp and change this line: (network-script network-bridge) to this line: (network-script ) With this change in place, the should be nothing that is trying to create peth0. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User willem@neteyes.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c10 --- Comment #10 from Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> 2008-05-19 16:34:59 MST --- Good call.. That booted it up all the way into my users X session. Everything seemed normal up to the point that I started the network service. Mouse was still responsive (could move it around) but lost all other input (keyboard and selecting by clicking). Needed to hard power off the system and reboot. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #216623|application/octet-stream |text/plain mime type| | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User jbeulich@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c11 --- Comment #11 from Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> 2008-05-20 01:57:43 MST --- Provided you're not running out of swiotlb space (which you would know if you watched the system console while doing step-by-step enabling of the networking stuff), it'd be good if you could try seperately whether enabling the b44 or the iwl3945 causes the problem (the latter would be the more likely suspect, despite you apparently observing the hang when eth0 is being enabled). Also, rather than starting the networking stuff all at once, could you try manually loading just the respective kernel modules? Finally, attaching a boot.msg from a native kernel boot might also be helpful (not the least because of the significant number of "system 00:0?: io??? range 0x????-0x???? could not be reserved" messages in the Xen boot). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User willem@neteyes.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c14 Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|willem@neteyes.nl | --- Comment #14 from Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> 2008-05-20 13:30:44 MST --- Created an attachment (id=217030) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=217030) requested boot logs - one native one booting xen Ok, just did some more tests, and here are the results; 1) booting with network service disabled and no network bridge set in edit /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp boot fine every time. 2) Both the modules b44 and iwl3945 are loaded at boot without any significant error in dmesg. 3) activating interface iwl3945 (ifconfig wlan0 up) - all is ok 4) activation interface b44 - system hang, can only move mouse, the rest is dead <reboot> 5) up to step 3 is ok, I now remove /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 and start the network service. That gets thing running for 10~15 seconds and I notice the fan spinning up. System is still responsive but I've lost keyboard input in my terminal consoles. Fire up gnome-system-monitor using the gnome pannel and see Klogd eating up one of my CPU cores. As soon as I kill the process all hangs like in point 4, mouse still movable but no other action possible other than the hard switch off... As a note, I almost did a factory update but then wondered if it is best to keep my system as it is or see if new updates will sort this out? I think there is also a kernel update? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User jbeulich@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c15 Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |willem@neteyes.nl --- Comment #15 from Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> 2008-05-21 03:42:42 MST --- If you see klogd using a full CPU's bandwidth, then this is a pretty certain indication that you get (huge amounts of) kernel messages - if you can't log them over serial, I would assume you still should be able to see them on the screen, provided you switch to the kernel console before they start appearing. Nevertheless it may still be necessary to find a way to log them because we may need to see the intitial one(s) and/or they may be scrolling by too fast for you to even read them. Comparing the boot messages you provided doesn't yield any significant difference. Doing an update on your system would not do any bad here I would think - in the best (but unlikely) case the problem's just gone afterwards, but we won't lose information by you doing this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User willem@neteyes.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c16 --- Comment #16 from Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> 2008-06-22 04:17:31 MDT --- Sorry for the long period of silence.. work has been crazy and have had no time to follow up. I will be installing the final of 11 next week and will have the console hooked up to further troubleshoot. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User jbeulich@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c17 --- Comment #17 from Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> 2008-08-11 00:46:12 MDT --- Please also give the kernel provided under ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kkeil/testing/11.0/ (originally for bug 396236) a try. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944 User willem@neteyes.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389944#c18 Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Info Provider|willem@neteyes.nl | Resolution| |DUPLICATE Version|Factory |Final --- Comment #18 from Willem Meens <willem@neteyes.nl> 2008-08-23 04:08:42 MDT --- this bug is a dupe of https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396236 I will be adding my comments and test results to that report. Thanks, Wj *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 396236 *** https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396236 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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