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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen error report (as requested)

To: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen error report (as requested)
From: Kyler Laird <kyler-keyword-xendevel00.1e6346@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:42:30 -0500
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:05:33PM +0000, Ewan Mellor wrote:

> > This is with changeset 8365.  I was checking "xm info" because I
> > couldn't start a domU.  ("Error: Error creating domain:
> > 'free_memory'.)
> 
> At a guess, I'd say that you had updated your Python scripts, but not the
> extensions (written in C, and installed in /usr/lib/python/xen/lowlevel).
> Could you check that everything's been built and installed cleanly?

A mismatch was my first thought too.  I've gotten fairly good at
clearing out all of the old files though.  (I've been banging on this
for awhile.  strace and I are buddies.)

> Otherwise, what platform are you on?

This is a dual Xeon system running in 64-bit mode.

I finally discovered that this error only seems to happen with recent
unstable changesets.  I switched to testing (8256) and did not have this
problem.

Thank you.

--kyler


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