Bug 999087

We actually had a similar issue with the rdb_flush symbol in qemu last year as well...

(In reply to Cole Robinson from comment #0)
> For a problem this caused, see:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995883
...

Thanks for opening this, Cole.

In addition to the problem Cole cited:
Bug 995883 - qemu-system-x86_64: symbol lookup error: qemu-system-x86_64: undefined symbol: rbd_aio_flush

There was this precursor bug:
Bug 993423 - Gnome Boxes fails to setup Box

Discovering that the problem was due to a missing symbol was almost by accident:
Bug 993423, Comment 8.

[Copied from Bug 995883, Comment 9]
Richard W.M. Jones 2013-08-20 20:36:43 UTC

(In reply to Steve Tyler from comment #8)
> Thanks, Cole.[1]
> 
> I was wondering why the Requires couldn't be done automatically:
> +# ceph added new symbol rbd_aio_flush which qemu wants to use, but ceph
> +# lacks symbol versioning so RPM doesn't pick up the dependency.
> 
> Is the lack of symbol versioning a Fedora problem or an upstream problem?

This is an upstream problem.

Fedora (actually RPM) will extract the basic fact that
the qemu binary needs ceph-libs, but with more sophisticated
symbol versioning upstream it would be possible for RPM to
determine precisely which version of ceph-libs is needed.

See for example:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/libvirt_public.syms;h=bbdf78ac222f14c39a5bd3cc264dc9aa7f54a70b;hb=HEAD

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 20 development cycle.
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Closing it again - it turned out to be a bug in a dependency of ceph
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