Description of problem: During my clean-up I deleted /var/log/vdsm directory. I didn't installed or updated vdsm. After I restarted vdsm, it could not start cause /var/log/vdsm has root owner insted of qemu:kvm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vdsm-4.9-91 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: On host: 1. service vdsmd stop 2. rm -rf /var/log/vdsm 3. service vdsmd start Actual results: /var/log/vdsm has owner root:root Expected results: owner is 36:36 (qemu:kvm) Additional info: Note that start of service says that vdsm started OK but actually it immediately exits due to logging issues.
It is interesting to see how vdsm behaves if you rm -rf / instead of your original step 2. </evil grin> (yeah, it would be nice to chown /var/log/vdsm when we recreate /var/log/vdsm/backup/)
Potential fix posted: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/7940/