Description of problem: If the qemu-kvm process would die while running "virsh dump", libvirtd(?) will hang and no further actions can be perfomed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-0.6.3-33.el5_5.3 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. virsh dump eldin /tmp/dump 2. while the above is running, run "kill $(pidof qemu-kvm)" 3. Now try e.g. "virsh list" Actual results: virsh list hangs Expected results: virsh list works
Maybe this problem is the same
bug 531983(In reply to comment #1) The same bug 531983
Sounds reasonable, at least libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5 solves the problem. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 531983 ***