On 07/22/2011 11:28 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:

> This is because udev and forward/backward compatibility are strangers
> passing in the night. I presume if you make the recommended change to
> SYMLINK+= instead of NAME= in your udev script this goes away?
You assume correctly.

> I posted a patch to fix this "libxl: attempt to cleanup tapdisk
> processes on disk backend destroy" a couple of times, most recently at
> http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=131066210526755 but it hasn't been
> applied yet. Can you try it?

I tried it:

make -j7 tools:
...
libxl_device.c: In function ‘libxl__device_destroy’:
libxl_device.c:253: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of 
‘libxl__device_destroy_tapdisk’
libxl_internal.h:321: note: expected ‘struct libxl__gc *’ but argument 
is of type ‘libxl__gc’
libxl_device.c:274: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of 
‘libxl__device_destroy_tapdisk’
libxl_internal.h:321: note: expected ‘struct libxl__gc *’ but argument 
is of type ‘libxl__gc’

My expertise with C is barely existant, but i took a look at 
tools/libxl/libxl_device.c

and changed your
libxl__device_destroy_tapdisk(gc, be_path);
into
libxl__device_destroy_tapdisk(&gc, be_path);

as i have seen some &gc on other lines of code.

And it compiled.

I then created a guest, shut it down.
First it kept beeing in a -ps--- state, i wanted to take a look at the 
runing processes with "ps auxww" but the ps process hung itself.
I could no longer run "ps" successfully after this point.
syslog showed:
ul 22 13:00:07 xenturio1 xl: tap-err:tap_ctl_read_message: failure 
reading message
Jul 22 13:00:07 xenturio1 xl: tap-err:tap_ctl_send_and_receive: failed 
to receive 'unknown' message

Either my hack to get your code to compile was no good or your patch has 
some unforseen side effects.



I have now rebooted the server.


As i went on to check if multipath had any effect on it i added
devnode "^td" to the blacklist.

Now when i xl create a vm it only boots up to a certain point and then 
does nothing.
If that certain point were to be the login prompt everything would be 
fine, but it isnt:
http://pastebin.com/Lmie6KwY

This is how it should look like:

http://pastebin.com/CsgYypbk

I will try to backtrace my steps and see what i did do to break my system.

In the meantime i have other systems i can test stuff on.



-with best regards


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Andreas Olsowski
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