[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536176: xen-utils-3.4: trying xen-3.4 once breaks xen-3.2 (?)

[Csillag Kristof]

Package: xen-utils-3.4
Version: 3.4.0-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

After installing xen-utils-3.4 besides my existing xen-3.2 system,
I could not start xend-3.2 anymore. The message I was getting is this:

    "Failed to initialize dom0 state."

As far as I know, xen 3.2 and 3.4 are supposed to be able to live
peacefully  on the same system. (The hypervisor and the utils are
in differently named packages.)

However, after the first experiment with 3.4 (which failed because
of a different bug), I could not go back to xen 3.2.

I rebooted to the correct hypervisor, and ran the current version
of tools, but it did not work any more. (I did not have time
to track down the reason this time.)

This causes quite a problem, since the new 3.4 version can not
be considered a drop-in replacement of the older 3.2 (HVM support
is disabled, for example), so this caused a sesiour problem,
at least for me.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xen-utils-3.4 depends on:
ii  e2fslibs               1.41.7-1          ext2 filesystem libraries
ii  iproute                20080725-2        networking and traffic
control too
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.4-3           LGPL Crypto library -
runtime libr
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20081213-1    shared libraries for
terminal hand
ii  libxenstore3.0         3.4.0-1           Xenstore communications
library fo
ii  python                 2.5.2-3           An interactive high-level
object-o
ii  python-central         0.6.11            register and build utility
for Pyt
ii  python2.5              2.5.2-15          An interactive high-level
object-o
ii  udev                   0.125-7+lenny1    /dev/ and hotplug
management daemo
ii  xen-utils-common       3.3.1-1           XEN administrative tools -
common
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xen-utils-3.4 recommends:
ii  bridge-utils                  1.4-5      Utilities for configuring
the Linu
ii  xen-hypervisor-3.4-amd64 [xen 3.4.0-1    The Xen Hypervisor on AMD64

Versions of packages xen-utils-3.4 suggests:
ii  xen-docs-3.4                  3.4.0-1    Documentation for Xen

-- no debconf information