Bug 1180229 - libvirt fails to start lxc's: Failed to allocate free veth pair
Summary: libvirt fails to start lxc's: Failed to allocate free veth pair
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: iproute
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Pavel Šimerda (pavlix)
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koj...
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Depends On: 1149043
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-01-08 16:34 UTC by Rolf Fokkens
Modified: 2015-04-10 21:23 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-04-10 21:23:37 UTC
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Description Rolf Fokkens 2015-01-08 16:34:03 UTC 
Description of problem: After upgrading from Fedora 19 to 20 we ran in the situation that no more LXC VM's could be started: Failed to allocate free veth pair.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
iproute-3.14.0-2.fc20.x86_64


How reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update to F20
2. Try to start an LXC
3. "Failed to allocate ..."

Actual results:
Failed to allo..

Expected results:
Running LXC

Additional info:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149043

Manually building the iproute-3.16.0-3.fc20.x86_64 (from the f21 src.rpm) and installing it fixes the problem
Comment 1 Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) 2015-03-13 21:07:52 UTC 
I see that Fedora 21 and later is fixed. I guess it's not worth getting back to Fedora 20 at this time of its lifecycle. Any objections?
Comment 2 Rolf Fokkens 2015-03-30 12:59:10 UTC 
OK with me.
Comment 3 Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) 2015-04-10 21:23:37 UTC 
Thanks.
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