On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:19 PM, M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>
>  For those not following in the bug, the libxl driver executes
>> '/usr/sbin/xend status' and refuses to load it xend is running.  The
>> problem here is that the status check causes xend to start!  I can't
>> reproduce the issue, so perhaps it is specific to the fedora packages.
>>
>
> It is specific to the Fedora package. I traced it to the
> xen-initscript.patch file in the Fedora source. From xen-3.1.0-2.fc8
> onwards Fedora xend ignores the option passed to it and just does a start.
> It was from before I started doing things on the package, but idea seems to
> have been to strip out functions like stop, reload etc. and do them
> directly in the init script.
>
> I don't think it is worth changing this much, but I think I will put back
> the status option to keep libvirt happy.
>

The other option of course would be to have a parallel patch in Fedora's
libvirt package, which calls "/etc/init.d/xend status" instead of
"/usr/bin/xend status" -- but that seems like it's probably more fragile
than just re-enabling the option in the Xen package.

 -George