[Fedora-xen] Can't text install DomU

[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