Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 700963
Cannot start libvirtd
Last modified: 2011-05-02 14:43:28 EDT
Description of problem: libvirtd is not starting and is not showing any useful error message Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-python-0.8.8-4.fc15.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.14.0-7.fc15.x86_64 kernel-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.x86_64 libvirt-client-0.8.8-4.fc15.x86_64 libvirt-0.8.8-4.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to start libvirtd running "service libvirtd start" Actual results: Error message: [root@oldie systemd]# service libvirtd start Starting libvirtd (via systemctl): Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details. [FAILED And the following error at /var/log/messages: Apr 30 00:30:19 oldie systemd[1]: libvirtd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Apr 30 00:30:19 oldie systemd[1]: Unit libvirtd.service entered failed state. Expected results: libvirtd to start Additional info: kvm modules are loaded: [root@oldie systemd]# lsmod | grep kvm kvm_intel 43336 0 kvm 306680 1 kvm_intel
Hi, I found that the problem was a buggy installation of fedora. If I try to run libvirtd manually I get the following error: libvirtd: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib64/libvirt-qemu.so.0: file too short And that turns out that /usr/lib64/libvirt-qemu.so.0.8.8 was an empty file. After reinstalling using yum, now I get other empty files so I would say the problem is not libvirt related. Feel free to close the bugzilla.