** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: xen-utils-3.2
  
  The xendomains init script has a couple of errors.
  
- These errors cause the normal migrate then save then shutdown mechanisms
- to fail, and instead skip straight to the "shutdown all" stage, which is
- a major departure from the expected behavior.
+ IMPACT: These errors cause the normal migrate then save then shutdown
+ mechanisms to fail, and instead skip straight to the "shutdown all"
+ stage. In addition to being a major departure from the expected
+ behavior, this could cause loss of user data, if users expect the state
+ of their VMs to be saved instead of destroyed.
  
- The attached patch from Carl Fooks
+ PATCH: The attached patch from Carl Fooks
  (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13407539/xendomains.patch) represents the
  minimal patch necessary to restore functionality.
  
- Details to reproduce:
+ TEST CASE:
  1. Start a Xen domU
  2. Run /etc/init.d/xendomains stop
  3. Observe that, after several errors are spewed, the domU is not saved to 
/var/lib/xen/save, as is the default Ubuntu config, but is instead shutdown.
  
+ REGRESSIONS: This is a two line patch whose implications can be pretty
+ easily observed directly. It is highly unlikely to make things any less
+ functional than they are now.
+ 
  Please note, this is not the same as bug #208300.

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errors in xendomains init script
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