Fedora xen - Jan 2007 - System hang when starting cups in Xen

Hi,

I installed the current xen-kernel on a FC6 and tried to boot it on my Intel 
Core 2 Duo. Everthing seems fine until the system tries to start the 
printer-service cups for a locally connect parallel port printer. It simply 
hangs forever. After a reboot, I checked if the non xen-kernel is able to 
boot: It is. Next I went into the interactive mode, when rebooting into xen. 
I neglected the start of cups and the system continued to start up upto the 
yum-updatesd. Then hanging again. 

Do I miss something? Do have to configure something before I am able to 
install the rpms as provided by Fedora?

I use Fedora Core 6 with the most recent updates kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 
on an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 1GB Ram on a Gigabyte 965G Board.

Thanks in advance for any advices. Greetings,
	Andre
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On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 12:39 +0100, Andre Vehreschild
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the current xen-kernel on a FC6 and tried to boot it on my
Intel
> Core 2 Duo. Everthing seems fine until the system tries to start the 
> printer-service cups for a locally connect parallel port printer. It simply
> hangs forever. After a reboot, I checked if the non xen-kernel is able to 
> boot: It is. Next I went into the interactive mode, when rebooting into
xen.
> I neglected the start of cups and the system continued to start up upto the
> yum-updatesd. Then hanging again. 
> 
> Do I miss something? Do have to configure something before I am able to 
> install the rpms as provided by Fedora?
> 
> I use Fedora Core 6 with the most recent updates
kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6
> on an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 1GB Ram on a Gigabyte 965G Board.
I saw something similar a while back and opened Red Hat bug 151491:

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151491

which led to Xen bug 13:

	http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13

The resolution for me was getting ACPI support into the Xen kernels.
FC6 + Xen works fine on the same hardware.

Keith.

Andre Vehreschild wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed the current xen-kernel on a FC6 and tried to boot it on my
Intel
> Core 2 Duo. Everthing seems fine until the system tries to start the 
> printer-service cups for a locally connect parallel port printer. It simply
> hangs forever. After a reboot, I checked if the non xen-kernel is able to 
> boot: It is. Next I went into the interactive mode, when rebooting into
xen.
> I neglected the start of cups and the system continued to start up upto the
> yum-updatesd. Then hanging again. 
>
> Do I miss something? Do have to configure something before I am able to 
> install the rpms as provided by Fedora?
>
> I use Fedora Core 6 with the most recent updates
kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6
> on an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 1GB Ram on a Gigabyte 965G Board.
I have a similar but not identical system, and no problem. You might try 
some acpi options at boot time, and see if there''s a change. I read 
something about this, but I can''t remember details as I didn''t
have the
issue.

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