Can't text install DomU

[Lars Bjørndal]

My approach is to install a DomU on top of a Fedora 16, 32 bit machine.
I don't have any X running, so I need a real text install. Anaconda
starts, but nothing happens after that. Below is the output. Hope
someone can help.

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[root@fox ~]# virt-install -l http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux
/releases/16/Fedora/i386/os --ram 512 --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/f16.img,siz e=4 -n
f16 --graphic none

Starting install...
Retrieving file .treeinfo...
Retrieving file vmlinuz-
Retrieving file initrd-PA
Creating domain...
Connected to domain f16
Escape character is ^]
[    0.000000] Reserving virtual address space above 0xf5800000
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.1.0-7.fc16.i686.PAE
(mockbuild(a)x86-11.phx2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc version 4.6.2 20111027 (Red Hat 4.6.2-1)
(GCC) ) #1 SMP Tue Nov 1 20:53:45 UTC 2011
[    0.000000] ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
[    0.000000] released 0 pages of unused memory
[    0.000000] Set 0 page(s) to 1-1 mapping.
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
[    0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
[    0.000000] DMI not present or invalid.
[    0.000000] last_pfn = 0x20000 max_arch_pfn = 0x1000000
[    0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000020000000
[    0.000000] RAMDISK: 00eca000 - 08f57000
[    0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[    0.000000] 512MB LOWMEM available.
[    0.000000]   mapped low ram: 0 - 20000000
[    0.000000]   low ram: 0 - 20000000
[    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA      0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
[    0.000000]   Normal   0x00001000 -> 0x00020000
[    0.000000]   HighMem  empty
[    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[    0.000000] early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
[    0.000000]     0: 0x00000010 -> 0x000000a0
[    0.000000]     0: 0x00000100 -> 0x00020000
[    0.000000] Using APIC driver default
[    0.000000] SFI: Simple Firmware Interface v0.81 http://simplefirmware.org
[    0.000000] SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
[    0.000000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
[    0.000000] APIC: disable apic facility
[    0.000000] APIC: switched to apic NOOP
[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000
[    0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 20000000:e0000000)
[    0.000000] Booting paravirtualized kernel on Xen
[    0.000000] Xen version: 4.1.2 (preserve-AD)
[    0.000000] setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:32 nr_cpumask_bits:32 nr_cpu_ids:1 nr_node_ids:1
[    0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 13 pages/cpu @dfbee000 s32000 r0 d21248 u53248
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages:
129936
[    0.000000] Kernel command line:
method=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fed...
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[    0.000000] allocated 2096896 bytes of page_cgroup
[    0.000000] please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want
memory cgroups
[    0.000000] Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00000000:00000000)
[    0.000000] Memory: 375456k/524288k available (4278k kernel code, 148384k reserved,
2724k data, 612k init, 0k highmem)
[    0.000000] virtual kernel memory layout:
[    0.000000]     fixmap  : 0xf5295000 - 0xf57ff000   (5544 kB)
[    0.000000]     pkmap   : 0xf4e00000 - 0xf5000000   (2048 kB)
[    0.000000]     vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xf4dfe000   ( 325 MB)
[    0.000000]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0000000   ( 512 MB)
[    0.000000]       .init : 0xc0ad7000 - 0xc0b70000   ( 612 kB)
[    0.000000]       .data : 0xc082d816 - 0xc0ad6840   (2724 kB)
[    0.000000]       .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc082d816   (4278 kB)
[    0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=15, HWalign=128, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] 	RCU dyntick-idle grace-period acceleration is enabled.
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:1280
[    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[    0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[    0.000000] console [hvc0] enabled
[    0.000000] installing Xen timer for CPU 0
[    0.000000] Detected 3000.144 MHz processor.
[    0.000999] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency..
6000.28 BogoMIPS (lpj=3000144)
[    0.001045] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.001373] Security Framework initialized
[    0.001514] SELinux:  Initializing.
[    0.001868] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[    0.002761] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[    0.002961] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[    0.002999] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[    0.002999] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[    0.002999] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[    0.002999] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio
[    0.003034] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event
[    0.003333] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[    0.003460] CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
[    0.003829] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[    0.005311] Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed
[    0.005517] ftrace: allocating 24660 entries in 49 pages
[    0.007181] Performance Events: unsupported Netburst CPU model 4 no PMU driver,
software events only.
[    0.008787] NMI watchdog disabled (cpu0): hardware events not enabled
[    0.008894] Brought up 1 CPUs
[    0.009721] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.012825] atomic64 test passed for i586+ platform with CX8 and with SSE
[    0.012916] Grant table initialized
[    0.031893] RTC time: 165:165:165, date: 165/165/65
[    0.032094] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.034997] PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
[    0.038731] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[    0.039179] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[    0.040964] xen/balloon: Initialising balloon driver.
[    0.040991] last_pfn = 0x20000 max_arch_pfn = 0x1000000
[    0.050377] xen-balloon: Initialising balloon driver.
[    0.051831] vgaarb: loaded
[    0.052121] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.052457] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.052516] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.052708] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.052995] PCI: System does not support PCI
[    0.052995] PCI: System does not support PCI
[    0.053035] NetLabel: Initializing
[    0.053057] NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
[    0.053077] NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
[    0.053121] NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
[    0.053152] Switching to clocksource xen
[    0.053995] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
[    0.076539] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[    0.084678] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.085081] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.086163] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[    0.086893] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[    0.087070] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[    0.087070] TCP reno registered
[    0.087070] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.087070] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.087070] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.088629] Unpacking initramfs...
[    1.385540] Freeing initrd memory: 131636k freed
[    1.482913] platform rtc_cmos: registered platform RTC device (no PNP device found)
[    1.483446] apm: BIOS not found.
[    1.483754] Intel AES-NI instructions are not detected.
[    1.484230] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[    1.484276] type=2000 audit(1336972488.808:1): initialized
[    1.517251] HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[    1.521353] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[    1.521587] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[    1.523240] msgmni has been set to 990
[    1.524571] alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
[    1.524609] NET: Registered protocol family 38
[    1.524751] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
[    1.524888] io scheduler noop registered
[    1.524906] io scheduler deadline registered
[    1.524954] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    1.525152] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[    1.525238] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
[    1.525260] acpiphp: ACPI Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.5
[    1.525530] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[    1.885464] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[    1.886695] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[    1.888191] Non-volatile memory driver v1.3
[    1.888218] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[    1.891628] loop: module loaded
[    1.891987] Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[    1.892240] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    1.892308] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[    1.892365] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
[    1.892540] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[    1.892586] USB Serial support registered for generic
[    1.892643] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[    1.892668] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
[    1.892766] i8042: PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
[    1.893837] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    1.934410] rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
[    1.934570] rtc_cmos: probe of rtc_cmos failed with error -38
[    1.934849] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[    1.935180] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.21.0-ioctl (2011-07-06) initialised:
dm-devel(a)redhat.com
[    1.935427] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
[    1.935895] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    1.935919] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    1.936148] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[    1.936209] TCP cubic registered
[    1.936229] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[    1.936623] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[    1.937123] Mobile IPv6
[    1.937140] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    1.937186] Registering the dns_resolver key type
[    1.937250] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[    1.937542] registered taskstats version 1
[    1.937567] IMA: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!
[    1.937680] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
[    1.937699] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
[    1.937716] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0
[    1.937765]   Magic number: 1:252:3141
[    1.937809] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[    1.937876] Initializing network drop monitor service
[    1.938729] Freeing unused kernel memory: 612k freed
[    1.942723] Write protecting the kernel text: 4280k
[    1.944461] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 2064k
[    1.944487] NX-protecting the kernel data: 3912k
[    2.088215] dracut: dracut-013-18.fc16
[    2.109377] dracut: root was live:/squashfs.img, liveroot is now live:/squashfs.img
[    2.144554] udevd[65]: starting version 173
[    2.455170] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[    2.667001] EXT4-fs (dm-0): warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
[    2.669876] EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[    2.688729] dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/mapper/live-rw
[    2.788224] dracut: Switching root
[    3.588479] type=1403 audit(1336972490.912:2): policy loaded auid=4294967295
ses=4294967295
[    3.604555] systemd[1]: Successfully loaded SELinux policy in 311ms 966us.
[    3.753016] systemd[1]: Successfully loaded SELinux database in 147ms 59us, size on
heap is 362K.
[    4.066382] systemd[1]: Relabelled /dev and /run in 290ms 464us.
[    4.079236] systemd[1]: systemd 36 running in system mode. (+PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT
+SELINUX +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP; fedora)

Welcome to Fedora release 16 (Verne)!

[    4.093558] systemd[1]: No hostname configured.
[    4.096337] systemd[1]: Initializing machine ID from random generator.
[    4.250819] systemd[1]: Failed to fully start up daemon: No such file or directory
[    4.251155] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit fedora-storage-init.service,
ignoring: Unit fedora-storage-init.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See
system logs and 'systemctl status fedora-storage-init.service' for details.
[    4.251288] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit fedora-wait-storage.service,
ignoring: Unit fedora-wait-storage.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See
system logs and 'systemctl status fedora-wait-storage.service' for details.
[    4.251405] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit
systemd-remount-api-vfs.service, ignoring: Unit systemd-remount-api-vfs.service failed to
load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status
systemd-remount-api-vfs.service' for details.
[    4.251516] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit fedora-readonly.service,
ignoring: Unit fedora-readonly.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See
system logs and 'systemctl status fedora-readonly.service' for details.
[    4.251647] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit lvm2-monitor.service,
ignoring: Unit dm-event.socket failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs
and 'systemctl status dm-event.socket' for details.
[    4.251979] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit rpcbind.socket, ignoring:
Unit rpcbind.socket failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and
'systemctl status rpcbind.socket' for details.
[    4.252139] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit dm-event.socket, ignoring:
Unit dm-event.socket failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and
'systemctl status dm-event.socket' for details.
[    4.252242] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit avahi-daemon.socket,
ignoring: Unit avahi-daemon.socket failed to load: No such file or directory. See system
logs and 'systemctl status avahi-daemon.socket' for details.
[    4.252432] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit ip6tables.service, ignoring:
Unit ip6tables.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and
'systemctl status ip6tables.service' for details.
[    4.253495] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit iptables.service, ignoring:
Unit iptables.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and
'systemctl status iptables.service' for details.
Starting Collect Read-Ahead Data...
Started Replay Read-Ahead Data.
Started Lock Directory.
Starting Initialize storage subsystems (RAID, LVM, etc.)...
Starting Software RAID Monitor Takeover...
Starting Security File System...
Starting Debug File System...
Starting Huge Pages File System...
Starting POSIX Message Queue File System...
Starting udev Coldplug all Devices...
Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...
Starting Syslog Kernel Log Buffer Bridge...
Started Syslog Kernel Log Buffer Bridge.
Starting Runtime Directory...
Started Collect Read-Ahead Data.
[    4.812765] systemd[1]: fedora-storage-init-late.service: main process exited,
code=exited, status=203
Starting Initialize storage subsystems (RAID, LVM, etc.) failed, see
'systemctl status fedora-storage-init-late.service' for details.
[    4.815369] systemd[1]: Unit fedora-storage-init-late.service entered failed state.
Started Software RAID Monitor Takeover.
Started Security File System.
Started Debug File System.
Started Huge Pages File System.
Started POSIX Message Queue File System.
Starting Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or progress polling...
Started Load legacy module configuration.
Starting File System Check on Root Device...
Started Load Kernel Modules.
Started Configuration File System.
Started FUSE Control File System.
Starting Setup Virtual Console...
Started Set Up Additional Binary Formats.
Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
Starting STDOUT Syslog Bridge...
Started STDOUT Syslog Bridge.
Started Runtime Directory.
[    5.140020] systemd-fsck[194]: Root directory is writable, skipping check.
Started File System Check on Root Device.
Starting Remount Root FS...
[    5.197725] systemd-vconsole-setup[195]: /bin/loadkeys failed with error code 1.
[    5.198839] systemd-vconsole-setup[195]: /bin/setfont failed with error code 1.
Started Setup Virtual Console.
Started Apply Kernel Variables.
[    5.257727] mount[201]: warning: can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
[    5.294187] EXT4-fs (dm-0): re-mounted. Opts: user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered
Started Remount Root FS.
Started udev Kernel Device Manager.
[    5.598173] udevd[188]: starting version 173
Started udev Coldplug all Devices.
Starting udev Wait for Complete Device Initialization...
[    6.113732] lvm[192]: No volume groups found
Started Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or progress polling.
Started Reconfigure the system on administrator request.
Started Relabel all filesystems, if necessary.
Started Mark the need to relabel after reboot.
Starting Load Random Seed...
Starting Recreate Volatile Files and Directories...
Started Load Random Seed.
[    6.616135] systemd-tmpfiles[229]: Successfully loaded SELinux database in 367ms 792us,
size on heap is 363K.
[    6.821216] Initialising Xen virtual ethernet driver.
[    6.903454] blkfront: xvda: flush diskcache: enabled
[    6.909609]  xvda: unknown partition table
Started Recreate Volatile Files and Directories.
Started udev Wait for Complete Device Initialization.
Started anaconda performance monitor.
Starting System Logging Service...
Starting Shell on tty2...
Started Shell on tty2.
Starting Shell on hvc1...
[    8.831724] udevd[208]: setfilecon /dev/vcs2 failed: No such file or directory
Started Shell on hvc1.
Starting Anaconda version 16.25.

[M A Young]

On Mon, 14 May 2012, Lars Bjørndal wrote:

>  My approach is to install a DomU on top of a Fedora 16, 32 bit
> machine.
>  I don't have any X running, so I need a real text install. Anaconda
>  starts, but nothing happens after that. Below is the output. Hope
>  someone can help. 
I am not particularly familiar with installing through libvirt, but I 
suggest you try giving anaconda the options
serial text console=hvc0

 	Michael Young

[Lars Bjørndal]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:27:25AM +0100, M A Young wrote:
>  On Mon, 14 May 2012, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
>  
>  >My approach is to install a DomU on top of a Fedora 16, 32 bit machine.
>  >I don't have any X running, so I need a real text install. Anaconda
>  >starts, but nothing happens after that. Below is the output. Hope
>  >someone can help.
>  
>  I am not particularly familiar with installing through libvirt, but
>  I suggest you try giving anaconda the options
>  serial text console=hvc0 
Thank you. I gave these options by appending -x "serial text
console=hvc0" on the command line. Now, I get some text output, but
something is wrong.

I'm using a braile display and BRLTTY to access the screen content.
When Anaconda prompts me to configure TCP/IP, for instance, I can't
see any text, like "IP address", "DHCP" etc. The heading is
displayed,
and also the OK button if I tab to it.

I further tried to add "nomodeset nofb console=force-text" as extra
options, but I have the same result. I need a clean 80x25 text
display. Any ideas?

Lars

[Lars Bjørndal]

Some time ago, I was able to do a text install. After some 'yum
update's, I'm not able to connect to the installed vm. I get the
following error message:

Connected to domain f16
Escape character is ^]
error: Unable to open stream for '/dev/pts/0': No such file or directory

I also find that I cannot get the console for a new install with
virt-install. Any hints on how to solve this problems?

Lars

[Cole Robinson]

On 06/06/2012 03:35 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
>  Some time ago, I was able to do a text install. After some 'yum
>  update's, I'm not able to connect to the installed vm. I get the
>  following error message:
>  
>  Connected to domain f16
>  Escape character is ^]
>  error: Unable to open stream for '/dev/pts/0': No such file or directory
>  
>  I also find that I cannot get the console for a new install with
>  virt-install. Any hints on how to solve this problems?
>   

Is xenconsoled running?

- Cole

[Lars Bjørndal]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 04:52:25PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>  On 06/06/2012 03:35 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
>  > Some time ago, I was able to do a text install. After some 'yum
>  > update's, I'm not able to connect to the installed vm. I get the
>  > following error message:
>  > 
>  > Connected to domain f16
>  > Escape character is ^]
>  > error: Unable to open stream for '/dev/pts/0': No such file or directory
>  > 
>  > I also find that I cannot get the console for a new install with
>  > virt-install. Any hints on how to solve this problems?
>  > 
>  
>  
>  Is xenconsoled running? 
It wasn't. I was not aware of that service. Thanks a lot.

Lars

[Cole Robinson]

On 06/06/2012 05:05 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
>  On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 04:52:25PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > On 06/06/2012 03:35 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> >> Some time ago, I was able to do a text install. After some 'yum
> >> update's, I'm not able to connect to the installed vm. I get the
> >> following error message:
> >>
> >> Connected to domain f16
> >> Escape character is ^]
> >> error: Unable to open stream for '/dev/pts/0': No such file or directory
> >>
> >> I also find that I cannot get the console for a new install with
> >> virt-install. Any hints on how to solve this problems?
> >>
> >
> >
> > Is xenconsoled running?
>  
>  It wasn't. I was not aware of that service. Thanks a lot.
>   
This used to 'just work', so it would be nice to get back to that point. What
did you have to do exactly to get this going? Install a package or systemctl
enable something?

- Cole

[Lars Bjørndal]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 05:08:44PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>  On 06/06/2012 05:05 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
>  > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 04:52:25PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>  >> On 06/06/2012 03:35 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
>  >>> Some time ago, I was able to do a text install. After some 'yum
>  >>> update's, I'm not able to connect to the installed vm. I get the
>  >>> following error message:
>  >>>
>  >>> Connected to domain f16
>  >>> Escape character is ^]
>  >>> error: Unable to open stream for '/dev/pts/0': No such file or
> directory
>  >>>
>  >>> I also find that I cannot get the console for a new install with
>  >>> virt-install. Any hints on how to solve this problems?
>  >>>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> Is xenconsoled running?
>  > 
>  > It wasn't. I was not aware of that service. Thanks a lot.
>  > 
>  This used to 'just work', so it would be nice to get back to that point. What
>  did you have to do exactly to get this going? Install a package or systemctl
>  enable something? 
I only did systemctl start xenconsoled.service. After verifying that
this worked, I did enable the same service. The reason for experiencing
this problem, may be because I updated some packages from
updates-testing, and then downgraded again, e.g. did some yum
distribution-synchronization.

Thanks and regards,
Lars

[Cole Robinson]

On 06/07/2012 08:42 AM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
>  On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 05:08:44PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > On 06/06/2012 05:05 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 04:52:25PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >>> On 06/06/2012 03:35 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> >>>> Some time ago, I was able to do a text install. After some 'yum
> >>>> update's, I'm not able to connect to the installed vm. I get the
> >>>> following error message:
> >>>>
> >>>> Connected to domain f16
> >>>> Escape character is ^]
> >>>> error: Unable to open stream for '/dev/pts/0': No such file or
> directory
> >>>>
> >>>> I also find that I cannot get the console for a new install with
> >>>> virt-install. Any hints on how to solve this problems?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Is xenconsoled running?
> >>
> >> It wasn't. I was not aware of that service. Thanks a lot.
> >>
> > This used to 'just work', so it would be nice to get back to that point.
> What
> > did you have to do exactly to get this going? Install a package or systemctl
> > enable something?
>  
>  I only did systemctl start xenconsoled.service. After verifying that
>  this worked, I did enable the same service. The reason for experiencing
>  this problem, may be because I updated some packages from
>  updates-testing, and then downgraded again, e.g. did some yum
>  distribution-synchronization.
>   
There have been several reports of this issue so I don't think it's specific
to your config.

Indeed, looking at the xen spec file, this regressed a bit with the switch to
systemd. xenconsoled used to be enabled at runlevels 345, but now it is never
explicitly enabled with systemctl enable xenconsoled. This differs from
xenstored, which was previously enabled at runlevel 345, and now _is_
explicitly systemctl enabled.

I've filed a bug for this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829732

- Cole

[M A Young]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Cole Robinson wrote:

>  There have been several reports of this issue so I don't think
> it's specific
>  to your config.
>
>  Indeed, looking at the xen spec file, this regressed a bit with the switch to
>  systemd. xenconsoled used to be enabled at runlevels 345, but now it is never
>  explicitly enabled with systemctl enable xenconsoled. This differs from
>  xenstored, which was previously enabled at runlevel 345, and now _is_
>  explicitly systemctl enabled. 
Yes, that is my fault. When I was moving to systemd I was trying to decide 
what was and wasn't needed, and I think I decided that xenconsoled was 
optional (for the way I do xen it wasn't needed), so didn't enable it by 
default. It should only be an issue on F17 and rawhide as I stopped the 
systemd migration on F16 when it was released and xenconsoled was migrated 
afterwards.

 	Michael Young