Bug 527808 - Sometimes my VMs won't start.
Summary: Sometimes my VMs won't start.
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 515521
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libvirt
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Daniel Veillard
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2009-10-07 19:02 UTC by Zack Cerza
Modified: 2009-10-09 14:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-10-09 14:16:48 UTC
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Description Zack Cerza 2009-10-07 19:02:58 UTC
Description of problem:
Sometimes when I try to start one of my VMs, I get an error dialog saying "Error starting domain: internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open serial device 'pty': No child processes" and showing this traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 571, in run_domain
    vm.startup()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 664, in startup
    self.vm.create()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 293, in create
    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open serial device 'pty': No child processes

I'm not sure where to file this, but I'll start with libvirt...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-common-0.11.0-3.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64
libvirt-0.7.1-10.fc12.x86_64

Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2009-10-09 13:33:21 UTC
Thanks for the report

Does the /dev/pts in entry in /etc/fstab contain 'gid=5,mode=620' ? See bug #515521

Comment 2 Zack Cerza 2009-10-09 14:16:48 UTC
Turns out that was the problem. Thanks!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 515521 ***


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