Bug#773561: Installing "xen-linux-system-amd64" on jessie fails

[Sydney Meyer <syd.meyer@gmail.com>]

Hello Ian,

"systemctl status xen.service" gives:

root@jessie:/home/sydney# systemctl status xen.service
● xen.service - LSB: Xen daemons
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/xen)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2014-12-20 20:42:30 CET; 11s ago
  Process: 4796 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/xen start (code=exited, status=255)

Dec 20 20:42:30 jessie xen[4796]: Starting Xen daemons: xenfs (warning).
Dec 20 20:42:30 jessie systemd[1]: xen.service: control process exited, code=exited status=255
Dec 20 20:42:30 jessie systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Xen daemons.
Dec 20 20:42:30 jessie systemd[1]: Unit xen.service entered failed state.


"journalctl -xn" gives:

root@jessie:/home/sydney# journalctl -xn
-- Logs begin at Sat 2014-12-20 20:40:10 CET, end at Sat 2014-12-20 20:42:30 CET. --
Dec 20 20:42:27 jessie kernel: hfsplus: unable to find HFS+ superblock
Dec 20 20:42:27 jessie kernel: qnx4: no qnx4 filesystem (no root dir).
Dec 20 20:42:27 jessie kernel: You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
                               
                               mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun|sunx86|44bsd|ufs2|5xbsd|old|hp|nextstep|nextstep-cd|openstep ...
                               
                               >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old
Dec 20 20:42:27 jessie kernel: hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev xvda2
Dec 20 20:42:27 jessie os-prober[4747]: debug: /dev/xvda5: is active swap
Dec 20 20:42:30 jessie kernel: xen:xen_evtchn: Event-channel device installed
Dec 20 20:42:30 jessie xen[4796]: Starting Xen daemons: xenfs (warning).
Dec 20 20:42:30 jessie systemd[1]: xen.service: control process exited, code=exited status=255
Dec 20 20:42:30 jessie systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Xen daemons.
-- Subject: Unit xen.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit xen.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
Dec 20 20:42:30 jessie systemd[1]: Unit xen.service entered failed state.


> On 20 Dec 2014, at 11:29, Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 00:57 +0100, Sydney Meyer wrote:
>> Job for xen.service failed. See 'systemctl status xen.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
> 
> Please can you provide the output of these two commands while in this
> state.
> 
> Ian.
>