On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 05:49 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > After upgrading to Squeeze, I am watching a Xen VMHost that after a > while it hangs. This did not happen when I was using Xen with Debian > Lenny (in this case as with Squeeze, the Xen components are from Debian > repositories). > > In each case I connected a keyboard and monitor to the computer and the > screen remained black without answering any key. When this happens, I > noticed that the drive activity LED apparently is permanently on.
I presume it also stopped responding to network e.g. ssh as well? Do the magic-sysrq key combinations produce any output? Can you reproduce it or did it just happen the once? If you can repro then attaching and configuring a serial console would be useful, since a) you could see if there was anything printed before the screen went dark and b) you can access the Xen debug keyhandlers only over the serial line. Were you doing anything when it hung or was the system just running in a steady state? I notice you are running a 32 bit hypervisor. I would highly recommend using the 64 bit hypervisor (package "xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64") even on i386. You can continue to use your 32 bit dom0 kernel and userspace but the 64 bit hypervisor is much more reliable and better tested etc. [...] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > In particular, I noticed the following lines: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ 0.000000] ERROR: Unable to locate IOAPIC for GSI 2 > [ 0.000000] ERROR: Unable to locate IOAPIC for GSI 9 > > [ 0.004000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > [ 0.004000] WARNING: at > /build/buildd-linux-2.6_2.6.32-31-i386-qYaaJr/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/source_i386_xen/arch/x86/xen/enlighten > .c:726 perf_events_lapic_init+0x28/0x29() Thanks. This is a benign warning, unfortunately I doubt it is related to the hang. Ian. -- Ian Campbell I'll show you MY telex number if you show me YOURS ...
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