Pkg xen devel - Nov 2018 - Bug#915063: xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64: xen 4.8 fails to boot

Package: src:xen
Version: 4.8.4+xsa273+shim4.10.1+xsa273-1+deb9u10
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
I installed xen hypervisor 4.8 and rebooted to Xen, I am used to xen and run it
on servers
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
try grub kernel xen parameters (iommu )
   * What was the outcome of this action?
blackscreen at gdm3 login session
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500,
'oldstable'), (11, 'testing'), (10, 'experimental'),
(10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 depends on no packages.

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 recommends:
ii  xen-utils-4.8  4.8.4+xsa273+shim4.10.1+xsa273-1+deb9u10

xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 suggests no packages.

-- debconf-show failed

severity -1 normal
thanks

Hi,

On 11/30/18 12:31 AM, gregory bahde wrote:
> Package: src:xen
> Version: 4.8.4+xsa273+shim4.10.1+xsa273-1+deb9u10
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate
***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> I installed xen hypervisor 4.8 and rebooted to Xen, I am used to xen and
run it
> on servers
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> try grub kernel xen parameters (iommu )
Can you tell us a bit more about what you were doing or trying to
accomplish?

Just "I was trying out random command line parameters" and then
reporting a critical bug does not sound very convincing. :)

The "breaks the whole system" justification would be justified if by
using this parameter on the xen command line would have destroyed your
entire computer, the filesystem, whatever, or in any case, caused
irrepairable damage to things that are not related to Xen at all. If
you're able to remove the parameter and then just happily use your
system again as before, then it didn't break your whole system for sure.

Thanks,
Hans
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> blackscreen at gdm3 login session
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.6
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'),
(500, 'oldstable'), (11, 'testing'), (10,
'experimental'), (10, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 depends on no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 recommends:
> ii  xen-utils-4.8  4.8.4+xsa273+shim4.10.1+xsa273-1+deb9u10
> 
> xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 suggests no packages.
> 
> -- debconf-show failed
> 
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tags 915063 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Gregory,

I'm tagging this report moreinfo now, since it clearly needs your
cooperation to advance.

Please let us know if you have addition information on what you were
trying to do, and which exact error messages you encoutered etc...

We might close this bug in the future if there's no response any more.

Thanks,
Hans

Processing commands for control at bugs.debian.org:
> tags 915063 + moreinfo
Bug #915063 [src:xen] xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64: xen 4.8 fails to boot
Added tag(s) moreinfo.
> thanks
Stopping processing here.

Please contact me if you need assistance.
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