[fedora-virt] end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 15:19 -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Jerry James<loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just made a Rawhide virtual machine to see if it suffers from the
> > same problem.  Zillions of copies of this message are being spewed to
> > the console, although the machine itself seems to be running normally
> > (if sluggishly):
> >
> > end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0
> >
> > Any idea what that's all about?
> 
> On a Fedora 11 x86_64 host with the latest updates installed, I just
> made a fresh KVM guest with virt-manager.  I made the disk image
> fresh, too, just in case that had something to do with it.  I
> installed Rawhide.  I cannot login through GDM for reasons I haven't
> tracked down yet.  Sending Ctrl+Alt+F2 to the guest gives me a text
> console where the message above is printed frequently.  Is anybody
> else seeing this?

Thanks for the report, it looks like this:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/514901

Both suspect patches were added in 2.6.31-rc1. Could you perhaps try a
2.6.30 kernel and see if that works?

  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=105567

Thanks again,
Mark.