Description of problem: Created a XEN Virutal machine using the the kernel and ramdisk from a RHEL5 Server Xen images directory and kickstarting the machine with RHEL5. Using the following command: xm create -c -f jabber on_reboot=destroy extra="ks=http://pygmalion/rhel5_i386.cfg ksdevice=eth0 noipv6 text" bootloader="" See attached jabber xen config file. During the kickstart the install will crash with the following error: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /block/ram0/dev Modules linked in: dm_emc dm_round_robin dm_multipath dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_zero dm_mod lock_nolock gfs2 ext3 jbd msdos raid456 xor raid1 raid0 xenblk xennet iscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi sr_mod sd_mod scsi_mod ide_cd cdrom squashfs pcspkr loop nfs nfs_acl fscache lockd sunrpc vfat fat cramfs CPU: 0 EIP: 0061:[<c045128d>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.18-8.el5xen #1) EIP is at copy_page_range+0x638/0x734 eax: c0832000 ebx: 440db045 ecx: 87a82000 edx: d7cc8e40 esi: 000183d4 edi: 440db045 ebp: 80000004 esp: c07bee74 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0069 Process anaconda (pid: 457, ti=c07be000 task=c0832000 task.ti=c07be000) Stack: df5058b4 c06f1200 d7cc8e40 440db045 80000004 df117000 c2711000 0efcd000 0c200000 0efcd000 1f0d8278 05e4e278 00000000 d83d4000 87a82000 00000000 d7cc8e88 c06f1248 c1000000 df0d8300 04aff001 00000005 fabb7027 00000005 Call Trace: [<c041a19f>] copy_process+0xb37/0x1167 [<c041a810>] do_fork+0x41/0x118 [<c04250c6>] sigprocmask+0xcc/0xd2 [<c0402b71>] sys_clone+0x28/0x2d [<c0404cff>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb ======================= Code: 00 3b 90 84 00 00 00 74 08 81 fa 80 37 65 c0 75 16 31 f6 8b 9c 24 84 00 00 00 89 f9 89 ea e8 3b ff fa ff 85 c0 74 09 8b 4c 24 38 <89> 69 04 89 39 83 44 24 3c 08 81 84 24 84 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 EIP: [<c045128d>] copy_page_range+0x638/0x734 SS:ESP 0069:c07bee74 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception This happens at different times during the install process and is not always able to reproduce. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Using the following xen package versions: kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 xen-libs-3.0.3-41.el5 xen-3.0.3-41.el5 xen-libs-3.0.3-41.el5 How reproducible: 70% Steps to Reproduce: 1.See Description 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 304213 [details] xen config file
I should also mention that
I should also mention that I have now seen this on a running Virtual Machine - i.e. not during a kickstart.
You are attempting to install a 32-bit guest on a 64-bit host. As per the RHEL-5.1 release notes, this is not supported and is known to randomly crash. Resolution of this problem for RHEL-5.2 is being tracked in bug 250427 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 250427 ***