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Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-8 Severity: minor During upgrade from 1.3.2-7 to 1.3.2-8 got follwing message on slave host (upgrade was simulatanious on slave and master): ... Setting up xcp-xapi (1.3.2-8) ... The server failed to handle your request, due to an internal error. The given message may give details useful for debugging the problem. message: INTERNAL_ERROR: [

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-8 Severity: important Tags: patch Found race condition (specific only to slave hosts): xcp-xapi can start earlier than xcp-networkd due lack of dependency in init.d script. Syptoms: After reboot slave's xcp does not work: xe (anything): The host failed to acquire an IP address on its management interface and therefore cannot contact the master. log:

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-9 Severity: normal Function wait_for_xapi in /etc/init.d/xcp-xapi does not work as intented. Symptoms: (on slave) /etc/init.d/xcp-xapi restart [....] Restarting The XenAPI server: xapiThe host toolstack is still initialising. Please wait. Cause: Line 'xe pif-scan host-uuid=${INSTALLATION_UUID}' called before xapi is fully synced with master.

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-7 Severity: normal xcp-xapi fails to eject host from pool with following error: xe pool-eject host-uuid=a6806a39-442d-f17d-b7a0-59161d18f56f WARNING: Ejecting a host from the pool will reinitialise that host's local SRs. WARNING: Any data contained with the local SRs will be lost. Type 'yes' to continue yes The server failed to handle your request,

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-6 Severity: important I done normal reboot: xe host-disable host=this_host xe host-reboot host=this_host After reboot host stays in 'disable' state and when I've tried to make it enable I got: xe host-enable uuid=ab523ee3-0546-5400-e2db-32f340292fff The specified host is disabled and cannot be re-enabled until after it has rebooted. host:

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-8 Severity: important During startup /etc/init.d/xendomains script is called. That script is installed with xen-utils-common witch xcp-xapi is depends on. That script calls /usr/sbin/xen as xen list &> /dev/null This 'xen' seems to call xapi: xen list ^Z [1]+ Stopped xen list root at lab-xh3:~# ps f PID TTY STAT TIME

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-6 Severity: important Looks like on Wheezy, /etc/default/xen is not created by xen-utils-common. Since xcp-xapi depends on its existence and further declaration of the toolstack in it, it should take extra care to ensure that it is present. root at debian:~# aptitude install xcp-xapi The following NEW packages will be installed: blktap-dkms{a} blktap-utils{a}

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3-16 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Path to "xe" program in /usr/lib/xcp/bin/xe-mount-iso-sr should be: XE="/usr/bin/xe" HTH, David -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-15 Severity: normal I am trying to pass an SRIOV virtual function in a virtual machine but the attempt fails with the following errors shown in the xcp-xapi.log [20130829T19:29:17.909Z|debug|sriov1|314 UNIX /var/lib/xcp/xapi|VM.start R:9e8e10bd31bb|pciops] PCI devices from other-config:pci to attach: 0/0000:04:00.1 [20130829T19:29:18.012Z|debug|sriov1|314 UNIX

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-6 Severity: minor Tags: upstream Builin utility for lowlevel vm boot repairment xe-edit-bootloader contains wrong path to xe. IS: XE="/usr/lib/xcp/bin/xe" MUST BE: XE="/usr/bin/xe" -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3-15 Severity: normal My packages were initially installed from the deb repository at download.xensource.org. Eventually, I upgraded them to the debian repository ones. Right now, xcp-xapi fails to start with the following messages. lnx200-39:~# /etc/init.d/xcp-xapi start Error: Connection refused (calling connect ) lnx200-39:~# -- System Information: Debian

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-9 Severity: normal Hi guys, Just a couple of things I noticed running through /usr/share/doc/xcp-xapi/README.Debian.gz as referenced by http://wiki.debian.org/XCP In "4/ Configuring Xen and XCP": sed -i "s/TOOLSTACK=/TOOLSTACK=xapi/" /etc/default/xen should be sed -i "s/TOOLSTACK=.*/TOOLSTACK=xapi/" /etc/default/xen Otherwise

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-6 Severity: important Configuration: Two xcp-xapi hosts (default sid/xcp-xapi installation) in single pool. Network backend is bridge. After migration of 'idle' (doning nothing) virtual machine it stops to reply to ping for long time. AFAIK that caused by mac-learning table on upper level (hardware) switch, which route all frames to wrong port

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-6 Severity: normal After some time of rebooting and toolstack restart found very funny output in 'xe pif-lis': xe pif-list params=currently-attached,device device ( RO) : vif2.0 currently-attached ( RO): false device ( RO) : vif211.0 currently-attached ( RO): false device ( RO) : eth1

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-11 Severity: normal We need to have a separate user/group privilege for xapi and its dependent processes. At the moment, everything runs as root -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3-15 Severity: wishlist The current initscript has the possibility of slowing down the boot process by 50 seconds. If this is required, it probably should be backgrounded. # Wait for xapi to write its "init complete" cookie: after here it's safe to modify templates. wait_for_xapi() { MAX_RETRIES=50 RETRY=0 while [ ${RETRY} -lt ${MAX_RETRIES}

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-11 Severity: normal xe host-set-hostname-live host-uuid=68878163-7c93-17af-7911-5a2726fefc66 host-name=xapi-xh3 The server failed to handle your request, due to an internal error. The given message may give details useful for debugging the problem. message: Subprocess exitted with unexpected code 2; stdout = [ ]; stderr = [ sed: can't read

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3-15 Severity: normal By default, xapi listens on the loopback interface. To make it available over the network, its inventory needs to be updated with the bridged interface details. For example, if xenbr0 is the bridged interface, it needs to be set it: lnx200-39:~# cat /etc/xcp/inventory BUILD_NUMBER='0' CURRENT_INTERFACES='xenbr0'

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-6 Severity: important Tags: upstream xe vm-memory-target-set does not write new target to /local/domain/ID/memory/target. Balloon in guest domain is expecting this value to be changed to do selfballooning. This breaks 'dynamic memory control' feature. Steps to reproduce: 1) Setup any PV virtual machine with static-memory-min < static-memory-max 2)

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-9 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I've following mostly the xcp-xapi/README.Debian instructions after installing it with apt-get -t wheezy network.conf is configured for bridge, xenbrN are functioning and shown with xe network-list A single SR is present, created with ext on a local LVM. For debugging purposes, all ISO and local ISO