Bug 625428

Summary: libvirt hangs if qemu-kvm dies while dumping core
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: David Juran <djuran>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 5.5CC: eblake, hiroshi.itani, virt-maint, xen-maint
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Description David Juran 2010-08-19 12:14:36 UTC 
Description of problem:
If the qemu-kvm process would die while running "virsh dump", libvirtd(?)
 will hang and no further actions can be perfomed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.6.3-33.el5_5.3

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. virsh dump eldin /tmp/dump
2. while the above is running, run "kill $(pidof qemu-kvm)"
3.  Now try e.g. "virsh list"
  
Actual results:
virsh list hangs

Expected results:
virsh list works
Comment 1 hiroshi.itani 2010-10-08 10:07:01 UTC 
Maybe this problem is the same
Comment 2 hiroshi.itani 2010-10-08 10:09:33 UTC 
bug 531983(In reply to comment #1)

The same bug 531983
Comment 3 David Juran 2010-12-29 10:11:14 UTC 
Sounds reasonable, at least libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5 solves the problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 531983 ***