[Fedora-xen] Re: Xen utilities hanging on Fedora 24

On Tue, 31 May 2016, W. Michael Petullo wrote:

> Has anyone else seen things like "xl list" or xentop hang on Fedora 24?
>
> # rpm -q kernel xen
> kernel-4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64
> xen-4.6.1-10.fc24.x86_64
>
> Running "strace xl list" produces the following, which seems to indicate
> that the hang occurs when "xl list" writes to /dev/xen/xenbus:
>
> access("/dev/xen/xenbus", F_OK) = 0
> stat("/dev/xen/xenbus", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(10, 62), ...}) = 0
> open("/dev/xen/xenbus", O_RDWR) = 6
> open("/etc/xen/xl.conf", O_RDONLY) = 7

I think this depends on having the right DomU running as I have used xl
list with the above settings without problems (though I don't think
anything I run depends on xenbus).

I also wonder what your selinux settings are. I had problems with
xen-4.7.0 which uses /dev/xen/privcmd which had
system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 permissions rather than
system_u:object_r:xen_device_t:s0 (now fixed if you have a recent enough
selinux). If you have selinux enabled could you try
chcon -t xen_device_t /dev/xen/xenbus
to see if that makes any difference or alternatively setenforce 0.

Michael Young
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