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

>> 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.

Indeed, this looks SELinux related, possibly due to bug #1322625 as
Konrad suggested. I will provide more details as I find them at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1341317

Thank you,

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Mike

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