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

[Guido Günther]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 04:52:26PM +0100, Andreas Unterkircher wrote:
>> Looks more like a problem with nss on your machine. Are you running
>> nscd?
>
> Luckily not, no nscd, no ldap - just local passwd/group:
>
> unki at srv-mfm-vm02:/etc/xen$ grep -E passwd\|group\|shadow /etc/nsswitch.conf
> passwd:         compat
> group:          compat
> shadow:         compat
Can you try to strace the then? Just running 
	strace -f libvirtd
as root should show what goes wrong.
 -- Guido