Re: xbd IO domain 2: error 5 (Xen2, NetBSD 3.0)

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:09:42PM +0200, Johan Ihren wrote:
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> Hi Manuel,
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> >>for one thing: I now see a sprinkling of
> >>
> >>    "xbd IO domain 2: error 5"
> >>
> >>in the logs and on the console. Never saw that before. It is always
> >>"domain 2" (which is started at boot) and always "error 5" (which I
> >>assume is "IO error" a la errno.h). I haven't noticed any real
> >>problems, though, everything *seems* to still work fine.
> >>
> >>But I sure would like to know what the problem is (especially if this
> >>signals a REAL problem somewhere) and why it arrived in combination
> >>with the disk replacement. Any ideas?
> >
> >Is it a physical partition or a vnd ?
> 
> vnd
> 
> >If it's a physical partition make sure you didn't make it too short.
> >If it's a vnd, make sure you can read the whole file, and that it  
> >didn't
> >get truncated.
> 
> There were no errors during dump/restore from old disk to new disk.  
> The file has the correct size and I'm able to read it all from the  
> Dom0 without any errors.

Hum, can you dd from /dev/rvnd0d to /dev/null the whole device ?
If the error comes from xbdback itself, there should be another error
message before this one.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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