Re: bug report

[David F Barrera <dfbp@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 14:47 +0200, Stephan Böni wrote:
> In the last days i've found two heavy bugs. Is someone working on it?
> 
> 1. Time stopped (Build 7398)
That's odd. I have not seen this problem since Monday, using changesets
7396 and up. 
> 
> When starting a domU the system time (in dom0) stopps for a few
> seconds and sometimes forever. With disabled Hyperthreading or
> maxcpus=1 all works fine.
> 
> 2. Mounting lots of drives (Build 7398)
> 
> Some device nodes (/dev/hd*) are missing in a domU. I can find
> in /var/log/messages an interesting thing. For all 16 configured
> devices i've found an entry like:
> "...xen1 logger: /etc/xen/scripts/block: bind ..."
> But only for 9 devices i've found an entry like:
> "...xen1 logger: /etc/xen/scripts/block: Writing backend/vbd/1/..."
> On the second try to start the domU i've found 12 "Writing backend"
> entries and on the third try 10 of them.
> If the root device (/dev/hda1) is one of them, i cannot logon
> to my domU. The missing /dev/hd*'s are these ones, which haven't
> a "Writing backend" entry in the /var/log/messages file.
> Interesting thing: I had never this problem with file devices, only
> with lvm devices.
> 
> Stephan
> 
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Regards,

David F Barrera
Linux Technology Center
Systems and Technology Group, IBM

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