[OmniOS-discuss] xnf panic

[Andy Fiddaman]

Al, that's great thanks. The fix will be in Monday's update - the same as
the hotfix you already have.

Thanks for reporting this, it's likely to hit people as Amazon upgrade
their platform.

Regards,

Andy

On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, Al Slater wrote:

; Hi Andy,
;
; OK, I booted a t2.micro instance from my AMI (Original OmniOS CE r151022
; HVM).  Updated pkg and then updated to r151022as.
;
; Then shut the instance down, changed the type to m4.large, then started
; the instance.  A panic/reboot loop ensued.  Stopped the instance.
;
; Changed the instance back to t2.micro and booted.  Applied the hotfix
; and rebooted.  Rebooted fine.
;
; Stopped the instance, changed instance type to m4.large, and started the
; instance.  The instance started and I could log in just fine.
;
; To be sure, I stopped and restarted the instance a few times. It always
; came back up ok.
;
; So, the patch looks good to me.  If you can think of any more tests you
; would like me to run, I'll give them a go for you.
;
; Thank you for the speedy fix.
;
; regards
;
; Al
;
;
; On 09/04/18 18:05, Al Slater wrote:
; > Hi Andy,
; >
; > Wow, that was fast.  I will test this when I have fed the family.
; >
; > I have my own AMI, so I can spin a server as a T2 instance, apply the
; > fix and then restart after changing to an M4.
; >
; > regards
; >
; > Al
; >
; > On 09/04/18 16:04, Andy Fiddaman wrote:
; >>
; >> Al,
; >>
; >> I've prepared a hot-fix containing this driver update if you'd like to
; >> test. I tried to test it myself on AWS but can't provision any type of
; >> machine from that unofficial CE r151022 AMI in London. Just snapshot the
; >> EBS volume first in case of problems.
; >>
; >> To install:
; >>
; >>   pkg apply-hot-fix https://downloads.omniosce.org/pkg/r151022/7186-xnf.p5p
; >>
; >> which will create a new boot-environment, and reboot.
; >>
; >> Assuming it looks ok, this update will be part of next Monday's release.
; >>
; >> Regards,
; >>
; >> Andy
; >>
; >> On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, Al Slater wrote:
; >>
; >> ; Hi,
; >> ;
; >> ; Has the fix for 7186 (xnf: panic on Xen 4.x) been integrated into
; >> ; r151022 since the initial CE release?
; >> ;
; >> ; I have an instance in AWS that they required me to stop and start again
; >> ; due to host patching.  When I started it again the instance went into a
; >> ; panic/reboot loop.  The stack dump looked similar to the one in the
; >> ; error report.
; >> ;
; >> ; I managed to get the instance started by changing the instance type from
; >> ; m4.large to t2.large.  Presumably AWS are migrating towards Xen versions
; >> ; > 4 in london region.  I don't know how long until the t2 hosts are updated.
; >> ;
; >> ; regards
; >> ;
; >> ;
; >>
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