Thanks, Athanasios. I am running xen-2.0.7 with 2.6.11.12 in dom0 and
2.4.31, I believe, in the problematic domUs. Interesting that it might
be a kernel problem. Alas, mine are heavily patched so I hesitate to
change them - John
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 12:20 +0200, Athanasios Floros wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> I think I may have good news for you. I have not received an answer or a
> solution either, however I made some modifications in my system that work out
> fine so far. However, I have not rebooted my system too many times since the
> modifications, so I can't be sure that it will be stable in the long term
> -but the system does shutdown/reboot flawlessly since the modifications.
>
> I was experiencing the problem with the default Xen installation of Suse
> Professional 9.3 (including the updates available through YOU). This means
> that I was using Xen version 2.0.5c-4 with kernel 2.6.11.4-21.10.
>
> I removed these packages form my system and installed the latest version of
> Xen (and kernel) from the packages found here:
>
> http://www.suse.de/~garloff/linux/xen/
>
> So in effect, I now use Xen 2.0.7 and kernel 2.6.11.4.21-8 (both in dom0 and
> in the unprivileged domains). This seems to have solved the problems during
> shutdown/reboot, despite the fact that the kernel is somewhat older version
> that the one officially suplied by Suse.
>
> The only unfortunate side effect of this setup, is that YOU now reports that
> "there are security updates available", because there is a newer Xen kernel
> available for my system. I will put up with this and will not try a kernel
> update, as long as my current setup works without any problems.
>
> I understand that you would not like to experiment a lot with your production
> system, so if I find out about any issues with this solution I will do my
> best to keep you posted.
>
> Kind regards,
> Athanasios
>
>
> On Saturday 25 February 2006 08:44, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:40 +0200, Athanasios Floros wrote:
> > > John,
> > >
> > > Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I am experiencing the
> > > exact same problem (xendomains stop hangs almost always during shutdown,
> > > but succeeds if called from a terminal before shutdown).
> > >
> > > Athanasios
> >
> > <snip>
> > No, I've received neither an answer nor a resolution and I am quite
> > concerned since we are running this in production.
> >
> > Is anyone else experiencing this? - John
>
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