Description of problem: Fedora 9 Rawhide guest networking failure. [root@kaiexenrawhide ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start Bringing up loopback interface: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument Failed to bring up lo. [FAILED] Bringing up interface eth0: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument Failed to bring up eth0. [FAILED] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@kaiexenrawhide ~]# uname -a Linux kaiexenrawhide 2.6.21.7-2886.fc9xen #1 SMP Mon Oct 29 14:41:46 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux How reproducible: Host machine: x86_64, RHEL 5.0 + updates, 4 gb ram Guest: 64 bit, 1 gb ram, 10 gb disk, > 30% free The guest was running Rawhide, a snapshot very close before the Fedora 8 release. Maybe even identical to it. Today I used "yum update" in order to go to the latest tip of Rawhide. The update went fine without failures, and I rebooted. After reboot, the guest can no longer be accessed through networking. I attached a console. The guest boots up fine and brings up the login prompt, all looks good. The problems are: "ifconfig" shows nothing. I tried to start the network, and I get the output shown at the top of this bug report. Actual results: No network device, neither lo nor eth0. Expected results: Networking should still work after yum update.
Updated host to: [root@kaiefast ~]# uname -a Linux kaiefast 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 01:21:23 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Maybe the following info helps, guest kernel prints: TCP bic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
I installed a newer rawhide kernel in the guest. Unforunately that one doesn't boot up at all :-/ The last kernel messages printed are: XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 795k request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c I waited a couple of minutes with no further events. When I use "xm shutdown rawhide" on the host, the guest will print some further messages before shutting down: md: stopping all md devices. xenbus_dev_shutdown: device/vif/0: Initialising != Connected, skipping xenbus_dev_shutdown: device/vbd/51712: Initialising != Connected, skipping System halted.
That "runaway loop" generally means that you've installed a 32-bit kernel into a 64-bit guest; when it tries to load the kernel modules from the filesystem, it gets all confused. Also, from the previous comment, the: XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 is actually normal, so isn't really helpful. What happens if you boot the rawhide guest with a Fedora 8 kernel? Does the network card work then? Chris Lalancette
(In reply to comment #3) > That "runaway loop" generally means that you've installed a 32-bit kernel into a > 64-bit guest Oops indeed. Sorry, I made that mistake when manually transporting the rpm file into the guest using block-attach... The latest x86_64 kernel boots up the guest ok (still without networking). > What happens if you boot the > rawhide guest with a Fedora 8 kernel? Does the network card work then? No. As this system was constantly updated, I still have some Fedora 8 kernels installed. I tried 2.6.21-2950.fc8xen, didn't work, fails with same error as in subject.
Created attachment 275811 [details] host ifconfig, route -n, xend-config.sxp Here's some information about network config on the host domain, maybe it helps. BTW, the host is now running rhel 5.1, updating didn't help.
I still have some other guests installed on this host. RHEL 5 guest: network ok RHEL 4 guest: network ok F-7 guest: network ok It's only Rawhide that's broken. I don't have an F-8 guest, but pre-release-8 rawhide used to work.
I'm expanding this bug to include a second host computer which is a i386 with 4 GB ram and Fedora 8 on the hist. Again, the rawhide xen guest is unable to access the network (after recent updates).
This is kind of blocking me from doing any rawhide testing. I think this is a pretty serious issue, since it makes xen rather unusable. Raising severity and priority as an attempt to put this on your radar.
I've just updated a machine that hosts some guests (dom0) from F8 to rawhide and I see the same problem there. I use bridged networking and the bridged is called tmpbridge without any physical interfaces in it. I'm using the latest xen* and kernel-xen packages from rawhide.
Networking in xen kernels in rawhide is known to be broken. The iproute package in rawhide now requires a newer kenrel version than we're able to provide with Xen, so you can't even bring up loopback interface. See bug 431182 There isn't really any viable solution to this until we get Xen kernels ported to 2.6.24 on paravirt_ops as per http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops
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