Re: Newbie of xen-unstable: xend start failure

[Mike Wray <mike.wray@hpl.hp.com>]

helen zhan wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I just installed xen-unstable two hours ago following the instructions 
> in the README file. I used "make world" and "make install" to compile 
> and install it sucessfully. But when I tried to start the daemon by 
> "xend start", I got the error as below.
>  
> It looks like that a file "xc.py" was missing in the directory 
> "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/xen/lowlevel". Does anyone have any 
> clue how to fix it?

The xc module failed to import because it couldn't open the command interface
(that's the line ERROR:... below). After that everything trying to use xc got
an error. The usual reason for this is that xend was not being run by root -
if you weren't root when running 'xend start', try again as root.

> 
> XendRoot>configure>
> 
> XendRoot>set_config> config_path= /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp
> 
> XendRoot>set_config> loading
> 
> XendRoot> config= ['xend-config', ['xend-port', '8000'], 
> ['xend-address', ''], ['network-script', 'network'], ['vif-bridge', 
> 'xen-br0'], ['vif-script', 'vif-bridge'], ['vif-antispoof', 'no']]
> 
> ERROR: Could not obtain handle on privileged command interface (2 = No 
> such file or directory)
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
> File "/usr/sbin/xend", line 23, in ?
> 
> from xen.xend.server import SrvDaemon
> 
> File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py", 
> line 38, in ?
> 
> import channel
> 
> File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/xen/xend/server/channel.py", line 
> 3, in ?
> 
> import xen.lowlevel.xc; xc = xen.lowlevel.xc.new()
> 
> xen.lowlevel.xc.error: (2, 'No such file or directory')
> 
>  
> Thanks & Best wishes,
>  
> Helen
> 
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Mike



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