On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:54:09PM +0100, Jan Lübbe wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 11:47 -0500, John Morrissey wrote: > > Package: kvm > > Version: 82+dfsg-1 > > Severity: important > > > > BUG after accessing the SCSI disk. This is readily reproducible with a lenny > > amd64 host installing lenny amd64 in a domain. mkfsing the domain's > > filesystems fails, d-i prompts you to Retry, Ignore, or Cancel, and choosing > > Cancel generates the Oops (below). > > > > Removing CVE-2008-0928-fedora.patch from the kvm packaging in experimental > > "fixes" this behavior. > > > > FWIW, I originally thought this was fixed by updating to the latest > > CVE-2008-0928-fedora.patch from Fedora, for KVM 81 and up > > (http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=123032725115808&w=2), but it appears I was > > mistaken or my testing flawed somehow, since I can reproduce this behavior > > every time I try to boot/install any host from/to a SCSI disk. > > I experienced this problem with kvm 83 and the same patch using a > Windows XP guest. There, it shows up as random application crashes and > failure to boot after using the system for some time. So it seems that > the qcow2 disk image is being corrupted. After removing the patch and > restoring the qcow image from backup it works fine.
I was thinking about your report from yesterday when reading this. That's why I asked John to try to reproduce without qcow. I already contacted glommer from RedHat (who modified the patch last) if they're seeing similar things. Cheers, -- Guido P.S.: I won't get around to debug this in the too near future. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
