[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#520744: libvirt-bin: error : Failed to lookup group 'libvirt'

[Andreas Unterkircher]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.6.1-1
Severity: normal


Hi,

On some machines (at least reproduceable on them) when I installed
libvirt I get the following error when libvirt gets started:

unki at srv-mfm-vm02:~$ grep libvirt /var/log/syslog
Mar 22 14:56:31 srv-mfm-vm02 libvirtd: 14:56:31.347: error : Failed to lookup group 'libvirt'
unki at srv-mfm-vm02:~$

But that is not the case on all machines. On some of them libvirt
immediatley works after installation. But on the others - the
group 'libvirt' is there:

unki at srv-mfm-vm02:~$ grep libvirt /etc/group
libvirt:x:113:

Also the directory containing the socket files is correctly owned:

unki at srv-mfm-vm02:~$ ls -ld /var/run/libvirt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root libvirt 58 2009-03-22 14:40 /var/run/libvirt

If I change unix_sock_group in libvirtd.conf for example to "root",
libvirtd is willing to start.

It also make no difference, if group 'libvirt' has members or not.

Cheers,
Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.23-3lenny1    Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.23-3lenny1    Avahi common library
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-5           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.1-1           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26            2.4.2-6+lenny1    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.4-2             library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-2             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-2             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3.1           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsasl2-2             2.1.22.dfsg1-23   Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libselinux1            2.0.65-5          SELinux shared libraries
ii  libtasn1-3             1.4-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libvirt0               0.6.1-2~mm.1      library for interfacing with diffe
ii  libxenstore3.0         3.2.1-2           Xenstore communications library fo
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  logrotate              3.7.1-5           Log rotation utility
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils                  1.4-5      Utilities for configuring the Linu
pn  dnsmasq-base                  <none>     (no description available)
ii  iptables                      1.4.2-6    administration tools for packet fi
ii  netcat-openbsd                1.89-3     TCP/IP swiss army knife
ii  qemu                          0.9.1-10   fast processor emulator

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
pn  policykit                     <none>     (no description available)

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