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Re: [Xen-users] Soft Lock on cpu problem Still???

To: Xin Chen <xcheney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Soft Lock on cpu problem Still???
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 19:21:39 +0300
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On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:08:43PM +1000, Xin Chen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a 'Soft lock on cpu problem'.  The system crushed. First, it 
> become slow... and then not responding then need to press reset.....
> 
> I have searched it from google and it seems a bug which has alreay been 
> fixed .
> However, I use yum update kernel-xen xen, and got the latest one. It 
> still got the problem.
> 
> My system is Fedora 6. Tha latest kernel is 2.6.20-1.2948.*fc6xen. *
> My Machine is:
> 
> Quad-core CPU 1.6
> Radeon Video Card
> 4G Memory
> 
> The system is running fine when started without xen.
> 
> I suspect that maybe the latest kernel didn't come with the bug patch?? 
> Do I need to apply the patch myself? Is it hard to do that ??
> 
> By the way, for my guest config file, I use vcpu=1, I don't know if I 
> changed to 4 will help or not?
> 
> Thanks for your help! I really need help. Please.
> 
> 

Fedora is shipping known-to-be-broken kernel-xen packages.. I don't why, but
they seem to unwilling to fix them. Same bug in fc6/fc6/fc7.

kernel-xen.2.6.19 works ok.. downgrade to it and it should be fine.

bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234008 

-- Pasi

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