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Description of problem:

VDSM refuses to start, due to dependent services

"initctl: Unknown job: libvirtd"
"vdsm: one of the dependent services did not start, error co[FAILED]"

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

RHEL 6.2

How reproducible:

Using the "service" command :
# service vdsmd start


Steps to Reproduce:
1.# service vdsmd start
  
Actual results:

# service vdsmd start
Stopping libvirtd daemon:                                  [  OK  ]
vdsm: libvirt already configured for vdsm                  [  OK  ]
Starting iscsid:
initctl: Unknown job: libvirtd
vdsm: one of the dependent services did not start, error co[FAILED]


Expected results:

# service vdsmd start
vdsm: libvirt already configured for vdsm                  [  OK  ]
Starting iscsid:
Starting up vdsm daemon:
vdsm start                                                 [  OK  ]
[root@slh-fr-bench-hyp1 init.d]#


Additional info:

This problem is due to the init script on the directory /etc/init.d/vdsmd


I just change the lines 

    352     /sbin/initctl restart libvirtd 2>/dev/null || :
to
    352     service libvirtd restart 2>/dev/null || :


    411     startout=`/sbin/initctl start libvirtd 2>&1`
to
    411     startout=`service libvirtd start 2>&1`

Because using /sbin/initctl produce this :

# /sbin/initctl start libvirtd
initctl: Unknown job: libvirtd

How did you install Vdsm? It should have configured libvirt to run as an upstart daemon.

Please attach the output of `bash -xv /etc/init.d/vdsmd start`. What's `rpm -q upstart vdsm` ?

Hi!

VDSM has been installed using yum.

It has been installed automaticaly by RHEV-M.

vds_bootstrap.652864.log:Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:49:55 DEBUG    ['/usr/bin/yum', '-y', 'install', 'vdsm']


You will find in attachment the output of `bash -xv /etc/init.d/vdsmd start`

Created attachment 549669 [details]
vdsm start output

You did not supply the installed vdsm version, but from the logs I see that it is an oldish beta version, not the vdsm-4.9-112.1 that we all should be using now.

I suspect that you are experiencing bug 733000, please uninstall vdsm, install vdsm-4.9-112.1, and reopen the bug if there is an(other) issue.