RE: Problems "upgrading" 3.1 to 3.2?

["Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>]

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Snakes in the grass, alas!

I had two different python directories and the old one was being used.

Removing of /usr/lib/xen may also have been necessary... I did that earlier.

Thanks for the help!
Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: M.A. Williamson [mailto:maw48@hermes.cam.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Mark
> Williamson
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:25 PM
> To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com; dan.magenheimer@oracle.com
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Problems "upgrading" 3.1 to 3.2?
> 
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> > I have a 3.1-based system (OracleVM actually) and am trying 
> to build/run
> > xen-unstable on it (c/s 16618). From xen-unstable.hg, I am 
> doing a "make
> > distclean", then building and installing normally (plus 
> normal depmod,
> > mkinitrd, cp initrd, and grub.conf changes).  However when 
> I reboot, xend
> > won't run.  /var/log/xen/xend-debug.log says:
> >
> >   sysctl operation failed -- need to rebuild the user-space 
> tool set?
> >   Exception starting xend: (13, 'Permission denied')
> >
> > Another "make install" and reboot still doesn't fix the problem.
> >
> > I can build and run xen-unstable on another system with a 
> fresh install
> > with no xen, so I don't think it's pilot error.
> >
> > Anybody else try "upgrading" and run into similar probs?  My xend is
> > definitely the new one from xen-unstable, so I'm thinking 
> there must be
> > some leftover 3.1 residue messing things up.
> 
> Yeah, it'll be some kind of "residue" problem.  Unfortunately 
> there's not a
> particularly clean way to uninstall Xen.
> 
> You could try removing /usr/lib/libxen* and 
> /usr/lib/python/xen and then
> reinstalling the tools.  Does that help?
> 
> Otherwise, I'm afraid you're going to need to keep hunting 
> down Xen-installed
> binaries until the problem goes away :-(
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> --
> Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat?  
> And no pedals!
> Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard?
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> 
> 

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