mkinitrd.yaird error while installing xen

[fmanders]

Hello, when i follow the "The Perfect Xen 3.1.0 Setup For Debian Etch (i386)" everything works fine untill i get to this :

# mkinitrd.yaird -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen 2.6.18-xen

when i use that command i get the following error :
yaird error: block device '/dev/hda1' unavailable (/etc/fstab:5) (fatal)

been looking on google, but cant find someone with the same error, so i'm hoping any of you guys know ?

Greets,

Ferry.

[geekman]

Looks like either your fstab file isn't setup correctly, or you are trying to use a partition that doesn't exist. Could you post the /etc/fstab file and the output of fdisk -l (L)?

Thanks.

[fmanders]

/etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80032038912 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9730 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        9400    75505468+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            9401        9730     2650725    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            9401        9730     2650693+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

[geekman]

Did you use some sort of guide to setup fstab? Because it looks as though it's been setup for use on a different system. All your drives are sda (sata I think?) too tired to elaborate on what you'd need right now...but I can in the morning if nobody else catches it.

Thanks.

[fmanders]

Thanks for your help sofar.

the system is installed fresh (about a year ago) updated from sarge to etch few days ago. the kernel was originally made on a other server, but the hardware is identical.

[geekman]

Ok I think this is what you need, the only thing i'm not too sure about is /dev/sda1...does that mount to /boot? I assume so because that partition is the only bootable one.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/sda1     /boot        ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/sda5     none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sda2     /      ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1

Thanks.

[fmanders]

yes i changed the fstab now and the install works

only now i'm walking into this error, when i create a new image and try to start it i get :

Error: Unable to connect to xend: No such file or directory. Is xend running?

ps gives :

# ps aux | grep xen
root        13  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   02:03   0:00 [xenwatch]
root        14  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   02:03   0:00 [xenbus]
root      3254  0.0  0.0   2096   812 ?        S    02:03   0:00 xenstored --pid-file /var/run/xenstore.pid
root      3259  0.0  0.1   9624  5272 ?        S    02:03   0:00 python /usr/sbin/xend start
root      3261  0.0  0.0  10188   516 ?        S    02:03   0:00 xenconsoled
root      3262  0.0  0.0  10188   516 ?        S    02:03   0:00 xenconsoled
root      3263  0.0  0.0  10188   516 ?        S    02:03   0:00 xenconsoled
root      3264  0.0  0.2  12044  6064 ?        S    02:03   0:00 python /usr/sbin/xend start
root      3268  0.0  0.2  12044  6064 ?        S    02:03   0:00 python /usr/sbin/xend start
root      3269  0.0  0.2  12044  6064 ?        S    02:03   0:00 python /usr/sbin/xend start
root      4946  0.0  0.0   1864   624 pts/1    S+   23:09   0:00 grep xen

/var/log/xen/xend.log shows me :

[2007-08-09 02:02:21 3258] INFO (__init__:1072) Xend stopped due to signal 15.
[2007-08-09 02:03:31 3264] INFO (__init__:1072) Xend Daemon started
[2007-08-09 02:03:31 3264] INFO (__init__:1072) Xend changeset: unavailable .
[2007-08-09 02:03:31 3264] INFO (__init__:1072) Xend version: Unknown.
[2007-08-09 02:03:31 3264] ERROR (__init__:1072) Exception starting xend ((13, 'Permission denied'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py", line 345, in run
    servers = SrvServer.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/server/SrvServer.py", line 254, in create
    root.putChild('xend', SrvRoot())
  File "/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/server/SrvRoot.py", line 40, in __init__
    self.get(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python/xen/web/SrvDir.py", line 82, in get
    val = val.getobj()
  File "/usr/lib/python/xen/web/SrvDir.py", line 52, in getobj
    self.obj = klassobj()
  File "/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/server/SrvNode.py", line 30, in __init__
    self.xn = XendNode.instance()
  File "/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/XendNode.py", line 658, in instance
    inst = XendNode()
  File "/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/XendNode.py", line 83, in __init__
    self.other_config["xen_pagesize"] = self.xeninfo_dict()["xen_pagesize"]
  File "/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/XendNode.py", line 622, in xeninfo_dict
    return dict(self.xeninfo())
  File "/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/XendNode.py", line 572, in xeninfo
    info['xen_scheduler'] = self.xenschedinfo()
  File "/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/XendNode.py", line 562, in xenschedinfo
    sched_id = self.xc.sched_id_get()
Error: (13, 'Permission denied')

[falko]

Do you get any error messages when you run

/etc/init.d/xend restart

?

[fmanders]

nope, no error messages, it also runs according to ps.

altho it seems it gets a permission error at some point, but doesn't crash because of it.

[falko]

Did you try to restart it as root?

What's the output of

ls -l /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp

?