[Gllug] More Xen problems: Unable to start xend

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:14:54PM +0000, - Tethys wrote:
> On 1/17/07, Daniel P. Berrange <dan at berrange.com> wrote:
> 
> >Urgh, that is absolutely horrific :-( I have a crusade about improving
> >error reporting in Xen tools, so this is now on my 'hit list' !
> 
> Yep. Like much of Xen's error reporting, it leaves a lot to be desired...
> 
> >There are the various  'xenstore-XXX' command line tools for querying
> >it. I don't believe there's any rebuild tools - I always just delete
> >it, reboot & things are happy again, so I wonder why that's still
> >failing for you
> 
> Curiously enough, it now does. The first time I tried it, I deleted
> /var/lib/xenstored/*, and it still failed. If I delete everything
> including the /var/lib/xenstored directory itself, it seems to work.
> No, it doesn't make much sense to me, either...

Did you shutdown / kill the xenstore process before deleting it ? It
has a crazy ass 'transaction engine' where it continually re-creates
its database - so you might have deleted its on disk DB instance, then
it finished its transaction & wrote a new one - still corrupt.

Dan.
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