On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:03:51AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:45:59PM +1000, Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> > Hi Daniel
> >
> > Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > >On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:57:07AM +1000, Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> > >>I have just completed a clean install of FC7 test 4 on a custom built
> > >>machine:
> > >>
> > >>MB: Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
> > >>CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
> > >>Video: Asus EN7900GS
> > >>RAM: Veritech DDR2 800 1 Gig x 2
> > >>HD: Pair of Maxtor 120 Gig SATA drives running as a mirrored RAID array
> > >>through the hardware controller on the motherboard
> > >>
> > >>The install ran fine, but when I boot the Fedora xen kernel
> > >>(2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen) it crashes during the boot process.
> > >>
> > >>If I boot "Fedora base (2.6.20-1.3104.fc7)", then it boots
fine.
> > >>
> > >>When booting the Fedora xen kernel the last output in the console is:
> > >>
> > >>Kernel panic: Not syncing - Aiee, killing interupt handler!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>I have seen a thread in this list talking about problems with the
> > >>2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen kernel. Can anyone suggest what I may be able to
> > >>do to work around this problem? Is there a different xen kernel that I
> > >>could be using with FC7? If so, where would I get it from?
> > >
> > >You don't mention what architecture you're installing ? i686 or
x86_64 ?
> > >We just built a new kernel into rawhide which 2.6.20-2925.7.fc7xen which
> > >fixes a bunch of things, including checksum corruption in networking and
> > >SMP support in 64-bit. This still has a major outstanding problem which
> > >affects many 32-bit machines though - debugging is ongoing & trying to
> > >get it resolved before F7 GA. So anyway, if you're using the 32-bit
> > >kernel I imagine you've hit the known panic problems we're
investigating.
> >
> > Sorry, should have mentioned, it is i686. So as you say I am hitting
> > the known panic problems.
> >
> > Thanks for the explanation, I guess that I will put this aside until you
> > get the new kernel running for F7 GA.
>
> FYI, we think we've got the problem fixed & have a new build available.
> If anyone is running rawhide with Xen and seeing crashes/hangs/wierd
> behaviour, please give the 2.6.20-2925.8.fc7 kernel a try. Its not in
> rawhide YUM repos yet, but you can it from Koji
>
>
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel-xen-2.6/2.6.20/2925.8.fc7/
>
>
> NB. this requires xen-3.1.0-0.rc7.1.fc7 userspace.
>
Hi!
Does this fix
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234008 ?
If it does, plans to fix it for fc5/fc6?
Thanks!
The reply seems to be already in that bugzilla entry.. :) thanks.
-- Pasi