[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#446708: xen-utils-common: occasional failures in "xm list"

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: xen-utils-common
Severity: minor
Version: 3.0.3-0-2

During a domU state transition (at least on domU shutdown), "xm list"
seems to occasionally fail.  This is only intermittent, but it could
cause problems if there are automated tools (or unaware humans)
inspecting the output or return codes of "xm list".  here's a recent
transcript (the numbers preceding the bash prompts are the return
codes of the previous command).  This is on an up-to-date etch dom0.

0 foo:~# xm shutdown grumpy
0 foo:~# xm list
Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State   Time(s)
Domain-0                                   0      128     2 r-----  14313.6
grumpy                                     1      768     1 -b----  50343.0
dopey                                      2     1000     2 r-----  11712.3
0 foo:~# xm list
Error: Device 0 not connected
Usage: xm list [options] [Domain, ...]

List information about all/some domains.
  -l, --long                     Output all VM details in SXP               
  --label                        Include security labels                    

1 foo:~# xm list
Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State   Time(s)
Domain-0                                   0      128     2 r-----  14317.1
dopey                                      2     1000     2 -b----  11715.6
0 foo:~#

Thanks for maintaining xen in debian!

       --dkg
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