Corruption in xenstored tdb file?

[Roger Pau Monné]

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