Bug 625428 – libvirt hangs if qemu-kvm dies while dumping core

Bug 625428 - libvirt hangs if qemu-kvm dies while dumping core

Summary:	libvirt hangs if qemu-kvm dies while dumping core

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 531983

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	libvirt (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.5
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Daniel Veillard
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Reported:	2010-08-19 08:14 EDT by David Juran
Modified:	2010-12-29 05:11 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2010-12-29 05:11:14 EST
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Description David Juran 2010-08-19 08:14:36 EDT

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

Comment 1 hiroshi.itani 2010-10-08 06:07:01 EDT

Maybe this problem is the same

Comment 2 hiroshi.itani 2010-10-08 06:09:33 EDT

bug 531983(In reply to comment #1)

The same bug 531983

Comment 3 David Juran 2010-12-29 05:11:14 EST

Sounds reasonable, at least libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5 solves the problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 531983 ***

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