We need six consecutive commits backported to F16, as this set of double-close bugs can cause rather insidious failures of libvirt. b19c236d69278c967d2d8b4aae97ac76213f1c10 qemu: avoid closing fd more than once 746ff701e8727439cac8ca72531d82e5cb7fa129 command: check for fork error before closing fd f3cfc7c8848006b613e09bb1acd081716854527e fdstream: avoid double close bug da831afcf2f6c0d3ed1ea3128a6208f548a05d8f command: avoid double close bugs 655cffa0f25be40c68624036af80bde102177612 avoid fd leak 0a045f01cfa48fabd41c801e3f44034a4e6da485 avoid closing uninitialized fd
libvirt-0.9.6.1-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-0.9.6.1-1.fc16
Package libvirt-0.9.6.1-1.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing libvirt-0.9.6.1-1.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-9913/libvirt-0.9.6.1-1.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
libvirt-0.9.6.1-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.