Bug 503406

Summary: F11: libvirt: cannot shutdown virtual machines booted to a console prompt
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gerry Reno <greno>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: berrange, clalance, crobinso, itamar, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Gerry Reno 2009-05-31 19:55:52 UTC 
Description of problem:
Using virtual machine manager, cannot shutdown any virtual machine that is booted to a console prompt (no X).  Virtual machines that are booted to X shutdown fine.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.6.2-8.fc11.x86_64

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Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2009-06-01 10:07:28 UTC 
What guest OS are you running. Is the acpid daemon running ? Please attach contents of /var/log/dmesg, and /proc/interrupts.
Comment 2 Gerry Reno 2009-06-01 13:29:35 UTC 
Guest is F10.  Host is F11.  Attaching files from guest.
Comment 3 Gerry Reno 2009-06-01 13:30:53 UTC 
Created attachment 346080 [details]
Guest (F10) dmesg
Comment 4 Gerry Reno 2009-06-01 13:31:50 UTC 
Created attachment 346081 [details]
Guest (F10)  /proc/interrupts
Comment 5 Gerry Reno 2009-06-01 13:34:29 UTC 
Created attachment 346082 [details]
Guest (F10) acpid process
Comment 6 Daniel Berrangé 2009-06-01 19:13:56 UTC 
That just looks like the kernel ACPI thread, not the userspace daemon. You need the userspace daemon to handle the shutdown requests. Please check the acpid initscript is turned on.
Comment 7 Gerry Reno 2009-06-02 00:37:17 UTC 
I checked all the guests and none of them had the acpid package installed.  So we installed acpid on all of them and the shutdown works fine now.

Would it be good if libvirt had a dependency on acpid?
Comment 8 Daniel Veillard 2009-06-02 06:58:53 UTC 
c.f. comment #7:
Since libvirt is installed on the host, not on the guest, and the requirement
is to have the guest run acpid, that dependancy would not help, unfortunately.

Daniel