[Swan-dev] testing system stalling

[Paul Wouters]

On Sat, 17 May 2014, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> For the last few weeks, I've been unable to run the test systems on my
> Fedora 20 system.  The scripts could not find the VMs responsive on the
> console.  Paul says that it seems to be something with the simulated
> serial console.
>
> I downgraded my Fedora kernel on the host machine from
>  kernel-3.14.3-200.fc20.x86_64
> to
>  kernel-3.13.4-200.fc20.x86_64
>
> Now testing seems to work.
>
> (The hint was Paul stated to get the problem on his machine after he
> rebooted his host for the first time in a couple of months.  That was when
> kernel updates caught up with him.)

I don't see anything obvious in the fedora kernel spec file :(

but it does include upgrading to newer kernels upstream too, so we would
have to check all the kernel sub versions changelog too :(

Paul