On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:41:27AM -0400, Ubaidul Khan wrote: > > Hello, > > Recently I ran yum update on a RHEL5 x86_64 machine and as part of the update, the following packages were installed: > > Updated: xen-libs-3.0.3-41.el5.x86_64 > Updated: xen-libs-3.0.3-41.el5.i386 > Installed: kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5.x86_64 > Updated: xen-3.0.3-41.el5.x86_64 > > After the update, I rebooted the machine. Now, I cannot get xend to start: > > [root@saleen xen]# /etc/init.d/xend start > Starting xend: [ OK ] > > [root@saleen xen]# ps -ef | grep xend > root 4080 1 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 python /usr/sbin/xend start > root 4081 4080 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 python /usr/sbin/xend start > root 4264 3109 0 11:45 pts/1 00:00:00 grep xend > > [root@saleen log]# tail -f /var/log/xen/xend.log > self.obj = klassobj() > File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDomainDir.py", line 39, in __init__ > self.xd = XendDomain.instance() > File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 655, in instance > inst.init() > File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 76, in init > self._add_domain( > File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 139, in xen_domains > domlist = xc.domain_getinfo() > Error: (13, 'Permission denied') That means you have a mis-matched version of the kernel vs userspace. Make sure you have applied all RHEL-5.1 updates, and have rebooted into the new kernel. The new userspace won't work with old kernel & vica-verca. Regards, Daniel. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen