> From the first link, I see that this event is characterised by an
inability to start PV guests and existing guests showing state
blocked.
When a guest is stuck this way, it's constantly in running state.
There is some confusion in the report, yes.
In my case, I can start a PV guest, and the stuck guest shows state
running and consumes 100% cpu.
Yes, that agrees with my experience.
Also, if it were that, wouldn't I expect to see other guests on the
same host lock up ?
It isn't that simple. Other guests lock up when they fill their
console buffers, apparently. But new guests seem to work fine for
me. Just try it, when you next experience this: stop xend, kill
xenconsoled, start xends. Don't touch xenstored! If everything
returns to normal, then this was it. If not, then something else. :)