Re: can't start domU

["Charles Coffing" <ccoffing@novell.com>]

>>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at  3:44 pm, in message
<43751EDA.80304@us.ibm.com>,
Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com> wrote: 
> Charles Coffing wrote:
>> I've been getting hangs while attempting to start domUs on recent
>> changesets.  I get an error such as:
>> Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not
>> working.
[snip]
> 
> All of these are failures to create the vif devices.
> Please check /var/log/messages, xend- debug.log, etc.
> You can put a set - x in your /etc/xen/vif- bridge (or equivalent)
> script for more verbose detail.
> 
> Also, check to see that your install went successfully.
> 
>  From previous debugging over the past week, most of
> these cases were the lack of brctl (or execute perms
> for root), or the lack of other utilities (make install
> should catch these).

The obvious stuff looks good:  The install went okay; brctl exists; all
scripts are executable.

I'll look more closely at the bridge script.

Thanks,
Charles