Your message dated Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:47:08 +0000
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and subject line Package kvm has been removed from Debian
has caused the Debian Bug report #532311,
regarding kvm: reboot panics
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Package: kvm
Version: 72+dfsg-5~lenny1
Severity: important
Sometimes, rebooting a kvm guest panics early in booting:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 8388608
invalid compressed format (err=1)
List of all partitions:
No filesystem cound mount root, tried:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0,0)
I have seen this problem after a kernel update in the guest. Most of the
time, I can trigger it by rebuilding the initrd of the newest kernel
installed, e.g.:
dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.26-2-686
init 6
I can then kill the kvm process and start a new one, and it boots happily. I
tried a lenny guest (i386) on a lenny host (amd64), with an IDE drive (hda),
not virtio_blk (vda). virtio_blk is nice, but I have to support IDE because
there are guests here without virtio_blk.
Downgrading kvm to version 72+dfsg-4 solves this problem for me. So it looks
like the fix for bug #506972 (debian/patches/restore_option_roms.patch: "fix
hang on reboot with virtio") introduced a regression.
I googled a bit and stumpled upon this, maybe it is related:
http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-extras-commits/2009-05/msg03765.html
I thought it might be a good idea to put some people in cc that were
involved in the mentioned bug, I hope this is ok for them.
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 85+dfsg-4.1+rm
You filled the bug http://bugs.debian.org/532311 in Debian BTS
against the package kvm. I'm closing it at *unstable*, but it will
remain open for older distributions.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/562620. That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
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Marco Rodrigues
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