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Bug 730101

Summary:	console is not properly released in interactive virsh
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Dave Allan <dallan>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Eric Blake <eblake>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.2	CC:	dyuan, mzhan, rwu, vbian, veillard, ydu
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	libvirt-0.9.4-11.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2011-12-06 11:26:21 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Description Dave Allan 2011-08-11 19:08:12 UTC

If I start virsh in interactive mode and get a serial console on a VM, then exit the console, then re-enter the console, I get garbage output consistent with two console sessions being started simultaneously.

Steps to reproduce:
1) start virsh in interactive mode
2) start $VM
3) console $VM
  At this point console output should be normal.
4) exit console with ^]
5) console $VM
  At this point the console output will be garbled.  Also, destroying the VM and then trying to get a console hangs (I waited over half an hour) instead of reporting that the VM is down.

Comment 6 Vivian Bian 2011-09-21 09:58:55 UTC

tested with  PASSED 
libvirt-0.9.4-12.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.192.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-197.el6.x86_64

Steps:
1) start virsh in interactive mode
2) start $VM
3) console $VM
  At this point console output should be normal.
4) exit console with ^]
5) console $VM

Actual result
All of the guest starting process could be exactly caught and outputted , there is no garbled output for me . 

According to the above , set bug status to VERIFIED

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 11:26:21 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1513.html