From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kyler Laird Subject: Re: Xen error report (as requested) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:42:30 -0500 Message-ID: <20051215134230.GZ2772@snout> References: <20051214182500.GC24517@snout> <20051215120533.GA11024@leeni.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051215120533.GA11024@leeni.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ewan Mellor Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:05:33PM +0000, Ewan Mellor wrote: > > This is with changeset 8365. I was checking "xm info" because I > > couldn't start a domU. ("Error: Error creating domain: > > 'free_memory'.) > > At a guess, I'd say that you had updated your Python scripts, but not the > extensions (written in C, and installed in /usr/lib/python/xen/lowlevel). > Could you check that everything's been built and installed cleanly? A mismatch was my first thought too. I've gotten fairly good at clearing out all of the old files though. (I've been banging on this for awhile. strace and I are buddies.) > Otherwise, what platform are you on? This is a dual Xeon system running in 64-bit mode. I finally discovered that this error only seems to happen with recent unstable changesets. I switched to testing (8256) and did not have this problem. Thank you. --kyler