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Bug 684712

Summary: Creating a storage pool with unsupported format type makes libvirtd dead
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Vivian Bian <vbian>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Osier Yang <jyang>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.1CC: dallan, dyuan, eblake, jyang, llim, mzhan, nzhang, veillard
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: libvirt-0.8.7-13.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-05-19 13:28:56 UTC Type: ---
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Description Vivian Bian 2011-03-14 10:11:19 UTC
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a storage pool with unsupported format type , such as "asdf"
2. check the libvirtd status
3.
  
Actual results:
# virsh pool-define pool.xml;service libvirtd status
error: Failed to define pool from pool.xml
error: server closed connection: 

libvirtd dead but pid file exists



Expected results:
Could tell the format type is not supported , and don't kill libvirtd 

Additional info:
Example XML 

<pool type='disk'>
  <name>sdb</name>
  <source>
    <device path='/dev/sdb'>
    </device>
    <format type='auto'/>
  </source>
  <target>
    <path>/dev</path>
    <permissions>
      <mode>0700</mode>
      <owner>0</owner>
      <group>0</group>
    </permissions>
  </target>
</pool>

Comment 2 Osier Yang 2011-03-16 07:03:59 UTC
patch posted upstream: 

http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-March/msg00742.html

Comment 3 Osier Yang 2011-03-16 08:39:35 UTC
http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhvirt-patches/2011-March/msg00366.html

patch posted internally, move to POST.

Comment 6 Nan Zhang 2011-03-17 05:24:31 UTC
It can also reproduced with latest build.

# rpm -q libvirt qemu-kvm kernel
libvirt-0.8.7-12.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.150.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-120.el6.x86_64

# cat pool.xml 
<pool type='disk'>
  <name>sdb</name>
  <source>
    <device path='/dev/sdb'/>
    <format type='XXXX'/>
  </source>
  <target>
    <path>/dev</path>
      <permissions>
        <mode>0700</mode>
        <owner>0</owner>
        <group>0</group>
      </permissions>
  </target>
</pool>

# virsh pool-define pool.xml 
error: Failed to define pool from pool.xml
error: server closed connection: 

# service libvirtd status
libvirtd dead but pid file exists

Comment 7 Nan Zhang 2011-03-17 05:36:12 UTC
Verified with libvirt-0.8.7-13.el6.x86_64, it's normal error info provided. Move to VERIFIED.

# rpm -q libvirt qemu-kvm kernel
libvirt-0.8.7-13.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.150.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-120.el6.x86_64

# virsh pool-define pool.xml 
error: Failed to define pool from pool.xml
error: XML description for unknown pool format type XXXX is not well formed or invalid

# service libvirtd status
libvirtd (pid  26317) is running...

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:28:56 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0596.html