| Summary: | Creating a storage pool with unsupported format type makes libvirtd dead | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Vivian Bian <vbian> |
| Component: | libvirt | Assignee: | Osier Yang <jyang> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | dallan, dyuan, eblake, jyang, llim, mzhan, nzhang, veillard |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | libvirt-0.8.7-13.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-05-19 13:28:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
patch posted upstream: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-March/msg00742.html http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhvirt-patches/2011-March/msg00366.html patch posted internally, move to POST. It can also reproduced with latest build.
# rpm -q libvirt qemu-kvm kernel
libvirt-0.8.7-12.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.150.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-120.el6.x86_64
# cat pool.xml
<pool type='disk'>
<name>sdb</name>
<source>
<device path='/dev/sdb'/>
<format type='XXXX'/>
</source>
<target>
<path>/dev</path>
<permissions>
<mode>0700</mode>
<owner>0</owner>
<group>0</group>
</permissions>
</target>
</pool>
# virsh pool-define pool.xml
error: Failed to define pool from pool.xml
error: server closed connection:
# service libvirtd status
libvirtd dead but pid file exists
Verified with libvirt-0.8.7-13.el6.x86_64, it's normal error info provided. Move to VERIFIED. # rpm -q libvirt qemu-kvm kernel libvirt-0.8.7-13.el6.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.150.el6.x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-120.el6.x86_64 # virsh pool-define pool.xml error: Failed to define pool from pool.xml error: XML description for unknown pool format type XXXX is not well formed or invalid # service libvirtd status libvirtd (pid 26317) is running... An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0596.html |
Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a storage pool with unsupported format type , such as "asdf" 2. check the libvirtd status 3. Actual results: # virsh pool-define pool.xml;service libvirtd status error: Failed to define pool from pool.xml error: server closed connection: libvirtd dead but pid file exists Expected results: Could tell the format type is not supported , and don't kill libvirtd Additional info: Example XML <pool type='disk'> <name>sdb</name> <source> <device path='/dev/sdb'> </device> <format type='auto'/> </source> <target> <path>/dev</path> <permissions> <mode>0700</mode> <owner>0</owner> <group>0</group> </permissions> </target> </pool>