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Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub boot problems

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub boot problems
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 01:19:37 +0200
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge, le Tue 06 Apr 2010 15:19:03 -0700, a écrit :
> I applied both, but something is still amiss.  Just commenting out the 
> two frees allowed the domain to start, but the kernel started printing 
> messages about the page state of various processes being bad.
> 
> After applying your two most recent patches (reverting the commented-out 
> free_pages first), the domain seems to boot, but then hangs at some 
> point early.
> 
> Disabling vfb still works fine.

Ok. The ground reason of all that is this:

shutdown_kbdfront: error changing state device/vkbd/0/state to 5: ENOENT

The MiniOS kbdfront driver can not stop the backend because xenstore
doesn't let it set the state to closing. I fail to understand how the
ENOENT error could happen (but not for the fb part!), and don't really
have the time to investigate further inside the meandres of xenstore...

Samuel

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