Bug#454147: /sbin/bootlogd: bootlogd: deadlock under Xen domU, wrong console device

[Mark Hindley]

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Jesse,

I have no knowledge of Xen domU and I know this was originally posted a long
time ago,

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:00:30AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> The crashing kernel is obviously a kernel bug, and should be reported
> in a separate BTS report to the kernel or Xen people.  The looping
> bootlogd issue might be a bug in bootlogd, but I do not know the
> bootlogd code well enough to tell.
> 
> The bootlogd code contain a list of known devices to test when not
> finding any on the kernel argument list.  Perhaps this list need to be
> extended for Xen?

However, the OP seems to suggest finding the correct console by experimentation
was tty1. Do you have any insight?

Thanks

Mark