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

[Guido Günther]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 03:06:25PM +0100, Andreas Unterkircher wrote:
> 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.
Looks more like a problem with nss on your machine. Are you running
nscd?
 -- Guido