[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#463686: Bug#463686: libvirtd segfault when starting with a kvm machine defined

[Guido Guenther]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 12:32:48PM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote:
> gilles at guitare:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin restart
> Restarting libvirt management 
> daemon: /usr/sbin/libvirtd/etc/init.d/libvirt-bin: line 89: 23111 Erreur de 
> segmentation  
> start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec 
> $DAEMON -- $libvirtd_opts
> 
> A strace shows that it's while reading the xml file of the VM :
Well it probably happens after parsing the xml - the xml looks o.k.
indeed, could you run libvirt in gdb and post the backtrace? Recompiling
with --debug would help a lot too. I'll look into this further but won't
get near a kvm capable machine during the next week.
Cheers,
 -- Guido