Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 13:40:38 +0100 From: Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= <roger.pau@citrix.com> To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@nfbcal.org> Cc: <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Corruption in xenstored tdb file? Message-ID: <YBQCRsXNLYummSTo@Air-de-Roger> In-Reply-To: <202101290111.10T1B4Br019488@nfbcal.org> References: <202101290111.10T1B4Br019488@nfbcal.org>
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 05:11:04PM -0800, Brian Buhrow wrote: > hello. Recently One of my FreeBSD-xen servers went down hard due to a power failure. > When it came back up, one of the domus' came up, but with no network interface. Dmesg > messages show the following errors. To fix the issue, I removed the /var/lib/xenstored/tdb > file and rebooted. Before that, I couldn't get this domu to boot with a network interface. My > question is, is it reasonable to take this action when such an error occurs and, further, might > it be better to remove that file before attempting to start xen on reboots, just in case > something didn't go down cleanly? Yes, I think it should be placed in a directory that's cleaned on reboot, it's not expected that people have to go clean this themselves. Do you have any recommendation where this should be placed? /var/run/xen would seem like a suitable place. Thanks, Roger
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