Re: [Fedora-xen] guests install problems

[Justin Conover]

On 3/27/06, Winston Chang <winston(a)stdout.org&gt; wrote:
>  I had the same problem and I just figured out a workaround.  The
>  issue is that the curses screen-drawing library isn't happy -- it
>  can't print the nice grub-like kernel selection menu.  On my
>  computer, this is because I sshed in from a Mac Terminal window.
>  When I connected via an xterm, it worked fine.
>
>  Seems like a bug to me.
>
>  --Winston 


That sounds like a good possiblity since I'm at work and sshd to it, I'll
try running it on the box and see what happens.


On Mar 27, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Justin Conover wrote:
>  > I created a guest with the python script xenguest-install.py when I
>  > run
>  >
>  > # /usr/sbin/xm create -c webserver1
>  >
>  > I get the following error
>  >
>  >
>  > Traceback (most recent call last):
>  > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 258, in ?
>  > curses.wrapper(run_main)
>  > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/curses/wrapper.py", line 44, in wrapper
>  > return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds)
>  > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 214, in run_main
>  > sel = main(cf)
>  > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 162, in main
>  > (stdscr, win) = draw_window()
>  > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 33, in draw_window
>  > curses.use_default_colors()
>  > _curses.error: use_default_colors() returned ERR
>  > Error: Boot loader didn't return any data!
>  >  #xm log (3-27-06)
>  >
>  > [2006-03-27 09:30:26 xend] ERROR (XendBootloader:84) Boot loader
>  > didn't return any data!
>  > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend] INFO (SrvDaemon:192) Xend stopped due to
>  > signal 15.
>  > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend] INFO (SrvDaemon:285) Xend Daemon started
>  > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend] INFO (SrvDaemon:289) Xend changeset:
>  > unavailable .
>  > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:
>  > 199) XendDomainInfo.recreate({'paused': 0, 'cpu_time':
>  > 13021637090975L, 'ssidref': 0, 'handle': [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
>  > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], 'shutdown_reason': 0, 'dying': 0,
> 'dom':
>  > 0, 'mem_kb': 762984, 'maxmem_kb': -4, 'max_vcpu_id': 1,
> 'crashed':
>  > 0, 'running': 1, 'shutdown': 0, 'online_vcpus': 2,
> 'blocked': 0})
>  > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend.XendDomainInfo] INFO (XendDomainInfo:211)
>  > Recreating domain 0, UUID 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
>  > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend] DEBUG (XendDomain:151) number of vcpus
>  > to use is 0
>  > [2006-03-27 09:32:19 xend] INFO (SrvServer:114) unix path=/var/lib/
>  > xend/xend-socket
>  > [2006-03-27 09:32:22 xend] ERROR (XendBootloader:84) Boot loader
>  > didn't return any data!
>  >
>  > This file compared to the examples seems to be missing info, but
>  > that might be because the create -c didn't start/finish what it does.
>  >
>  >
>  > # cat /etc/xen/webserver1
>  >
>  > # Automatically generated xen config file
>  > name = "webserver1"
>  > memory = "256"
>  > disk = [ 'file:/xen/webserver1,xvda,w' ]
>  > vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:14:83:a4' ]
>  > bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"
>  >
>  > on_reboot   = 'restart'
>  > on_crash    = 'restart'
>  >
>  >
>  > # xm list
>  > Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
>  > Domain-0                           0      745     2 r----- 13017.5
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