Unable to create guest with xen-create-image

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DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"
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Xen 3.1 / Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-xen
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ubuntu-xen-server:
  Installed: 0.0.1-2ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.0.1-2ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.0.1-2ubuntu4 0

When issuing: xen-create-image --hostname=test --size=2Gb --swap=256Mb --ide \
--ip=192.168.0.254 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=192.168.0.1 --force \
--dir=/home/xen --memory=64Mb --arch=i386 --kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-xen \
--initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-xen --debootstrap --dist=etch

I get this in my syslog:

Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.818849] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00100104
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.818862] printing eip:
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.818864] ee1a9e06
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.818868] 008da000 -> *pde = 00000000:202e0001
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.818872] 1eae0000 -> *pme = 00000000:00000000
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.818876] Oops: 0002 [#1]
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.818878] SMP
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.818882] Modules linked in: af_packet i915 drm binfmt_misc rfcomm l2cap bluetooth bridge ppdev button bay sbs video dock ac container battery deflate zlib_deflate twofish twofish_common camellia serpent blowfish des cbc ecb blkcipher aes xcbc sha256 sha1 crypto_null af_key nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop lp snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device serio_raw psmouse parport_pc parport serial_core snd pcspkr soundcore iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp pci_hotplug snd_page_alloc intel_agp agpgart ipv6 evdev ext3 jbd mbcache usbhid hid sg sr_mod cdrom sd_mod ata_generic tulip floppy ata_piix libata scsi_mod tg3 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan capability commoncap fuse
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.818999] CPU: 1
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.818999] EIP: 0061:[<ee1a9e06>] Not tainted VLI
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819001] EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.22-14-xen #1)
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819016] EIP is at journal_grab_journal_head+0x26/0x40 [jbd]
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819020] eax: c1cdb5c0 ebx: c18be9f4 ecx: 00100100 edx: c18be9f4
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819023] esi: 000000d0 edi: c15a6800 ebp: c18db5c0 esp: c1693dd8
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819026] ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0069
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819030] Process kswapd0 (pid: 155, ti=c1692000 task=ed448f90 task.ti=c1692000)
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819033] Stack: ee1a5228 c1848600 e35bb0e0 c1d1e820 e74e8ac4 c1d1e820 c18be9f4 00000000
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819044] ee1e1240 000000d0 00000001 c18db5d8 c015464c c18db5c0 c03c0c00 c015b8c3
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819055] c1693f14 00000103 c1693f04 c1693f0c c03c118c c03c1180 c1693f84 00000020
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819066] Call Trace:
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819072] [<ee1a5228>] journal_try_to_free_buffers+0x58/0x150 [jbd]
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819100] [<ee1e1240>] ext3_releasepage+0x0/0xa0 [ext3]
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819125] [try_to_release_page+44/64] try_to_release_page+0x2c/0x40
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819140] [shrink_inactive_list+1971/2320] shrink_inactive_list+0x7b3/0x910
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819212] [_atomic_dec_and_lock+61/112] _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x3d/0x70
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819226] [d_kill+56/80] d_kill+0x38/0x50
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819238] [prune_one_dentry+90/224] prune_one_dentry+0x5a/0xe0
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819249] [<ee11643e>] mb_cache_shrink_fn+0x1e/0x100 [mbcache]
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819269] [shrink_zone+180/288] shrink_zone+0xb4/0x120
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819285] [kswapd+828/1136] kswapd+0x33c/0x470
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819317] [autoremove_wake_function+0/80] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819334] [kswapd+0/1136] kswapd+0x0/0x470
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819342] [kthread+66/112] kthread+0x42/0x70
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819346] [kthread+0/112] kthread+0x0/0x70
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819356] [kernel_thread_helper+7/16] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819370] =======================
Mar 6 12:18:52 mart kernel: [ 302.819372] Code: 41 ff ff ff 90 89 c2 f0 0f ba 2a 16 19 c0 85 c0 74 0d 8b 02 a9 00 00 40 00 74 ec f3 90 eb f3 8b 02 31 c9 66 85 c0 79 07 8b 4a 24 <83> 41 04 01 8b 02 a9 00 00 40 00 74 08 f0 0f ba 32 16 89 c8 c3

System continues to work, but after a half-minute or so I get this again in my syslog:

Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.732995] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733006] printing eip:
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733009] c19f1a20
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733013] 01832000 -> *pde = 00000000:3d833001
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733015] 01833000 -> *pme = 00000000:00000000
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733019] Oops: 0002 [#2]
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733021] SMP
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733025] Modules linked in: af_packet i915 drm binfmt_misc rfcomm l2cap bluetooth bridge ppdev button bay sbs video dock ac container battery deflate zlib_deflate twofish twofish_common camellia serpent blowfish des cbc ecb blkcipher aes xcbc sha256 sha1 crypto_null af_key nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop lp snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device serio_raw psmouse parport_pc parport serial_core snd pcspkr soundcore iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp pci_hotplug snd_page_alloc intel_agp agpgart ipv6 evdev ext3 jbd mbcache usbhid hid sg sr_mod cdrom sd_mod ata_generic tulip floppy ata_piix libata scsi_mod tg3 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan capability commoncap fuse
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733135] CPU: 1
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733136] EIP: 0061:[<c19f1a20>] Not tainted VLI
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733137] EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.22-14-xen #1)
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733147] EIP is at 0xc19f1a20
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733150] eax: c19f26c0 ebx: c19f26c0 ecx: c03c0d0c edx: 00000000
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733153] esi: ca7b3ec4 edi: 00040000 ebp: 00000000 esp: ca7b3e94
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733156] ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0069
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733159] Process awk (pid: 16459, ti=ca7b2000 task=dbce59f0 task.ti=ca7b2000)
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733162] Stack: c0156929 00000000 c03c0c00 00000004 ca7b3ec4 c1754384 00000007 c01569bf
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733173] c1ac6ec0 c03c0c00 c0159856 00000007 00000007 00000000 c1b1a060 c19f2fa0
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733183] c19f32a0 c19f1600 c19f4580 c19f26c0 c1ac6ec0 c19f45a0 c9e14ff0 bfc1ffff
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733195] Call Trace:
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733198] [free_hot_cold_page+393/512] free_hot_cold_page+0x189/0x200
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733223] [__pagevec_free+31/48] __pagevec_free+0x1f/0x30
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733232] [release_pages+390/496] release_pages+0x186/0x1f0
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733285] [free_pages_and_swap_cache+116/160] free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x74/0xa0
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733305] [exit_mmap+225/240] exit_mmap+0xe1/0xf0
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733324] [mmput+56/160] mmput+0x38/0xa0
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733334] [do_exit+289/2128] do_exit+0x121/0x850
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733342] [remove_vma+65/80] remove_vma+0x41/0x50
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733352] [do_munmap+390/480] do_munmap+0x186/0x1e0
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733375] [do_group_exit+38/144] do_group_exit+0x26/0x90
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733386] [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733416] =======================
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733418] Code: 31 00 00 f8 35 9f c1 b8 f5 9e c1 68 08 00 00 02 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff c8 cd c0 c9 f4 66 d5 d5 00 00 00 00 98 b3 ac c1 f8 13 9f c1 <00> 02 00 00 01 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 14 16 9f c1 00 00 00 00 00
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733472] EIP: [<c19f1a20>] 0xc19f1a20 SS:ESP 0069:ca7b3e94
Mar 6 12:20:22 mart kernel: [ 392.733482] Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!

Right after that the system freezes.

Output from /proc/cpuinfo:

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 1862.189
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 3726.75
clflush size : 64

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 1862.189
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 3724.02
clflush size : 64

[Todd Deshane (deshantm)]

bug #161171 might be related

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen-tools/+bug/161171

[Shimi Chen (shimi-chen)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 199089 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

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