On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 01:45:33PM +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> After running out of swap and memory (apparently a java program
> leaking memory) and freezing, a domU called web02 won't start up.
>
> Both dom0 and domU are running CentOS release 5.4. dom0's kernel is
> 2.6.18-164.el5xen and I'm running the
> stock xen from CentOS: xen-3.0.3-94.el5
>
> After issuing 'xen create web02' I see the following in the xen console:
>
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> vmalloc area: ee000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d800000
> Memory: 1031328k/1056768k available (1478k kernel code, 16784k
> reserved, 548k data, 132k init, 311296k highmem)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
> Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
> SELinux: Initializing.
> selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
> Capability LSM initialized as secondary
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
> CPU: L2 cache: 6144K
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=c0344000 soft=c0324000
> Brought up 1 CPUs
> checking if image is initramfs... it is
> Freeing initrd memory: 1232k freed
> Grant table initialized
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> Initializing CPU#1
> Brought up 2 VCPUs
>
> But after that it just hangs. SSH won't respond either. 'xm list' shows:
>
> web02 25 1023 2 -b---- 0.9
>
> All I see in dom0's xend log is:
>
> Dec 20 13:18:10 kr kernel: device vif25.0 entered promiscuous mode
> Dec 20 13:18:10 kr kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): vif25.0: link is not ready
> Dec 20 13:18:12 kr kernel: blkback: ring-ref 8, event-channel 9,
> protocol 1 (x86_32-abi)
> Dec 20 13:18:12 kr kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): vif25.0: link becomes
> ready
> Dec 20 13:18:12 kr kernel: xenbr0: topology change detected, propagating
> Dec 20 13:18:12 kr kernel: xenbr0: port 5(vif25.0) entering forwarding state
>
> In dom0's /var/log/messages I see:
>
> Dec 20 13:18:12 kr kernel: blkback: ring-ref 8, event-channel 9,
> protocol 1 (x86_32-abi)
> Dec 20 13:18:12 kr kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): vif25.0: link becomes
> ready
> Dec 20 13:18:12 kr kernel: xenbr0: topology change detected, propagating
> Dec 20 13:18:12 kr kernel: xenbr0: port 5(vif25.0) entering forwarding state
>
> xm dmesg reports nothing unusual except these at the end:
>
> (XEN) mm.c:649:d22 Error getting mfn 3b6 (pfn 55555555) from L1 entry
> 00000000003b6025 for dom22
> (XEN) mm.c:3341:d22 ptwr_emulate: fixing up invalid PAE PTE 00000000003b6025
>
> But I've no idea when those messages have been created.
>
> I've disabled selinux in dom0.
>
> Other domUs are running fine, although I haven't tried rebooting them.
>
> Any ideas what could be wrong with the domU?
>
Do you have xenconsoled running?
I've seen xenconsoled crashing sometimes, causing this kind of
behaviour. If it's dead, restart it.
Also sometimes I've seen xenconsoled getting stuck somehow, ie. it's
there, but it doesn't do anything. Killing + restarting fixes that case.
Worth trying.
-- Pasi
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