Bug 906009

Summary: libvirt-guests fails to restart guests at boot time
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: berrange, clalancette, crobinso, eblake, itamar, jforbes, jyang, laine, libvirt-maint, shyu, veillard, virt-maint, zbyszek
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Fixed In Version: libvirt-1.1.3.2-1.fc20 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Alan Jenkins 2013-01-30 15:46:00 UTC
Description of problem:

libvirt-guests fails to restart guests at boot time.  The journal shows it failing to connect to libvirtd.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libvirt-0.10.2.2-3.fc18.x86_64
(installed from testing, fixes libvirt crash on system shutdown a.k.a. bug 903184)

How reproducible: always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. systemctl enable libvirt-guests
2. start a guest system
3. reboot
  
Actual results:

After the reboot, the guest system is shown as "saved" in virt-manager.

Expected results:

After the reboot, the guest system should be running.

Additional info:

- On a running system, you can stop, and then start libvirt-guests, and it has the expected result.  I.e. the guest is saved, and then resumed.

- Log messages:

libvirt-guests.service - Suspend Active Libvirt Guests
          Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirt-guests.service; enabled)
          Active: active (exited) since Wed 2013-01-30 15:17:11 GMT; 18min ago
         Process: 1279 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/libvirt-guests start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jan 30 15:17:11 fossil.scree.dyndns.org systemd[1]: Starting Suspend Active Libvirt Guests...
Jan 30 15:17:11 fossil.scree.dyndns.org libvirt-guests[1279]: Can't connect to default. Skipping.
Jan 30 15:17:11 fossil.scree.dyndns.org systemd[1]: Started Suspend Active Libvirt Guests.

Comment 1 Alan Jenkins 2013-01-30 16:40:44 UTC
I noticed guests didn't start at boot-time on F17 either.  I didn't look for the error message at the time, but I can reproduce the exact same error message in an F17 VM.  (It looks like you can't nest KVM, so the inner VM was run under QEMU).

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2013-04-01 18:01:44 UTC
I rebooted a few times and managed to reproduce this once. Might be a race with libvirtd starting up, if libvirt-guests tries to connect to early, the check fails and no guests are started.

Comment 3 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2013-11-18 14:47:15 UTC
It seems that libvirt-guests.service has no dependency on libvirtd.service. It should probably have After=libvirtd.service.

Comment 4 Eric Blake 2013-11-18 15:46:44 UTC
Might be related to bug 1031696

Comment 5 Cole Robinson 2013-11-19 20:23:18 UTC
I've sent a patch upstream with the suggestion in Comment #3

Comment 6 Cole Robinson 2013-11-20 14:04:32 UTC
Upstream now:

commit d92036754a70098377798d93cb6d20378959e3a7
Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Date:   Tue Nov 19 15:19:25 2013 -0500

    libvirt-guests: Run only after libvirtd


And pushed to F19 and F20 maint

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-12-14 21:34:19 UTC
libvirt-1.1.3.2-1.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-1.1.3.2-1.fc20

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-12-16 07:07:39 UTC
Package libvirt-1.1.3.2-1.fc20:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing libvirt-1.1.3.2-1.fc20'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-23446/libvirt-1.1.3.2-1.fc20
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2013-12-31 01:55:41 UTC
libvirt-1.1.3.2-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.