[Fedora-xen] f20 netfront failures [SOLVED]

[Bill McGonigle]

On 12/11/14 13:28, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> [76819.472975] vif vif-2-0 vif2.0: txreq.offset: 8ee, size: 3858, end: 6144
> [76819.473012] vif vif-2-0 vif2.0: fatal error; disabling device
> [76819.482474] brbfc: port 2(vif2.0) entered disabled state

Followup: a few days later, this patch hit lkml:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/14/147

The Fedora 3.17.8 kernel definitely has it (in patch-3.17.8.xz).

The problem is in the DomU kernel, so that's where the updates need to
happen.  3.17.3 was really giving me headaches lately as a DomU - to the
point that I'd have to reboot and hope I could 'xl console' and yum
could download the update before the port got disabled.  I don't know
why the problem go so much more severe this week - the domU and dom0
kernels haven't been updated for a few weeks.  I rebooted to deal with
some bum memory, so something apparently is different other than the
kernels.

Anyway, after updating the DomU kernel to 3.17.8 the networking has been
stable so far.

-Bill

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