[Fedora-xen] guest state ---s-d

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Augusto Castelan Carlson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> One of my guests (guest1) was not accessible today. The state was
> ---s-d. Looking at the xen docs, for "s" says that the state is
> shutdown, but there is no entry for "d".
> Every night I save the guest with
> # virsh save guest1 /saved/guest1_saved
> and mount the guest1 disk to backup user files, umount the disk and
> restore the guest:
> # virsh restore /saved/guest1_saved
> In the xend.log there was no message about the restore.
> When I tried to shutdown (with xm ou virsh) the guest , I received
> "Error: Domain cannot be shutdown". Below the " xm list" output and
> the error from xend.log
> 
> Dom0 and DomU are Fedora 7 with 2.6.21-6.fc7xen, xen-3.1.2-1.fc7,
> xen-libs-3.1.2-1.fc7 and libvirt-0.3.2-1.fc7.
> 
> #xm list
> Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s)
> Domain-0                                     0   493     2     r-----   5039.8
> guest1                                13   251     1     ---s-d    440.0
> guest2                                14   251     2     ------    219.6
> 
> xend.log output:
> [2008-01-16 08:09:15 2303] ERROR (SrvBase:88) Request shutdown failed.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/web/SrvBase.py", line 85, in perfor
> m
>     return op_method(op, req)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDomain.py", line 65,
>  in op_shutdown
>     return self.dom.shutdown(req.args['reason'][0])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 453,
> in shutdown
>     raise XendError('Domain cannot be shutdown')
> XendError: Domain cannot be shutdown
> 
> What is the meaning of the "---s-d" state and what canbe the cause of
> this problem?

I think the 'd' in this case means 'dying'.  Try shutting down the 
domain hard, eg. 'virsh destroy guest1'.

Rich.

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