Description of problem: The xendomains service fails to start up guests when started through systemd or systemctl, manually running '/usr/libexec/xendomains start' works fine. I marked this one as high severity because this is a problem when working remotely. The setup on this particular host is that one of the VMs is actually the gateway for the host, thus no way to reach it remotely until the VM is up, or someone physically present and on the same network logs in to the host and starts up everything manually. This complicates simple tasks like rebooting the host for kernel updates. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.2.2-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to reproduce: 1. Put xen guest config files into directory /etc/xen/auto 2. Reboot xen host machine (or: systemctl start xendomains.service) Actual results: This is displayed in /var/log/messages: systemd[1]: Starting Xendomains - start and stop guests on boot and shutdown... xendomains[1326]: Starting auto Xen domains: xl-vserver01-lvm-run.pvmcannot open the lockfile /var/lock/xl errno=13 xendomains[1326]: xl-vserver02-lvm-run.pvmcannot open the lockfile /var/lock/xl errno=13 xendomains[1326]: [done] systemd[1]: Started Xendomains - start and stop guests on boot and shutdown. And it does not start the guests. Expected results: It should just work and automatically start the guests inside the /etc/xen/auto directory. Additional info: This is somewhat a follow up to bug #959804, but I created a semodule in the hope it would fix the problem until #959804 will get fixed someday, but it turns out this is a seperate bug, since now SELinux (because of the module I created) isn't denying anything anymore.
I think your problem is still selinux, as I have successfully booted a saved xen guest vm on boot with selinux in permissive mode.
(In reply to Michael Young from comment #1) > I think your problem is still selinux, as I have successfully booted a saved > xen guest vm on boot with selinux in permissive mode. Actually, this may not be valid, as I have just remembered that the system I was testing on has a non-standard version of xen installed.
I have now retested with an official xen build xen-4.2.3-1.fc18 (which should be in updates-testing soon), and the results are the same; a saved xen guest vm boots successfully with selinux in permissive mode, so I still think your problems are with selinux.
Incidentally, when working out what selinux is blocking make sure you run semanage dontaudit off first before your test run as issues may not show up as they aren't recorded by default. Run semanage dontaudit on to get back to the standard state.
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