On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 07:47:45PM +0100, Kimi Ostro wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> does anyone know what causes the following:
> xenbackendd: Failed to contact xenstore (Connection refused).  Is it 
> running?
> 
> xenstore is not running even though I have the (I think) appropriate
> lines in my rc.conf:
> 
> xend=YES
> xenbackendd=YES
> #xendomains=""
> 
> Under the top command I can only see python2.3 twice, nothing else
> related to xen.
> 
> If I enter xm list on the shell prompt I get:
> 
> Error: Error connecting to xend: No such file or directory.  Is xend 
> running?

Probably not. It may be because you're missing some devices in /dev
(update MAKEDEV and rerun MAKEDEV xen, you should have a /dev/xsd_kva),
or some other issues. Anything interesting in /var/log/xen* ?

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