Re: bin/56293: Xen Dom0 with no active DomUs stalls during shutdown

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/56293; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/56293: Xen Dom0 with no active DomUs stalls during shutdown
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 13:57:04 +0200

 On 7/2/21 1:40 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 >   > 	The Xen related rc.d scripts are a bit of a hairball, which I
 >   > 	will not venture into. But a plain, innocent 'xl list'
 >   > 	shouldn't get stuck in the first place.
 >   
 >   xl list is stuck because xenstored isn't running.
 
 If the consequences are so bad, the xen script hairball should maybe 
 check preconditions before issuing said "xl list"?
 
 Put differently, once the xen* scripts have been dropped into rc.d, is 
 there a central rc.conf OFF switch?