[Fedora-xen] System hang when starting cups in Xen

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Fri Jan 5 22:12:57 UTC 2007


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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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979




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