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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: First DomU started goes into a busy loop
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:18:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <506095D3.8090907@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50607CCF.9050904@overnetdata.com>


On 24/09/12 16:31, Anthony Wright wrote:
> On a  32 bit Xen 4.20 system with a 3.5.4 kernel around 40% of the time

I assume you mean 4.2.0?

> when the system starts up the first DomU to be started goes into a busy
> loop (always in state r----- which CPU constantly increasing) with no
> console output. If I destroy the DomU and restart it with identical
> settings, it starts correctly. I got the same happening with Xen 4.1
> with a 3.5.3 kernel, but tried upgrading to see if that fixed it, but it
> didn't.
>
> If I connect to the console there's no output, and I can't get find any
> useful information in the logs or xl dmesg. The DomU is running a 3.3.2
> 32 bit linux kernel.
>
> Can you give me any suggestions how I might diagnose what's going on ?

32bit builds of Xen have been removed from 4.3.  As far as I am aware,
there has been no serious effort to maintain them.  I highly suggest
using a 64bit Xen.

~Andrew

>
> thanks,
>
> Anthony
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-24 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-24 15:31 First DomU started goes into a busy loop Anthony Wright
2012-09-24 17:18 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2012-09-25  8:20   ` Ian Campbell
2012-09-25 16:30     ` Anthony Wright
2012-09-25 16:33       ` Ian Campbell
2012-09-25 16:35       ` Andrew Cooper

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