[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#366216: vif-bridge: offlining the interface fails because interface already offline

[Mike Hommey]

Package: xen-utils-3.0
Version: 3.0.2+hg9656-1
Severity: normal

My setup is a basic one. No changes to the /etc/xen/* files.
Network in a domU works perfectly fine.
But, after shutdowning a domU, I can see the following lines in
/var/log/debug:
May  6 10:31:45 vaio logger: /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge: offline XENBUS_PATH=backend/vif/18/0
May  6 10:31:46 vaio logger: /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge: brctl delif xenbr0 vif18.0 failed
May  6 10:31:46 vaio logger: /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge: ifconfig vif18.0 down failed
May  6 10:31:46 vaio logger: /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge: Successful vif-bridge offline for vif18.0, bridge xenbr0.

As you can see, brctl and ifconfig both fail.

After instrumenting the vif-bridge script, I discovered the vifx.0
interface is already offline when the script is called.

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