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

[Andreas Unterkircher]

Sure, do you want the full strace output? Below I just copied the lines 
after it read libvirtd.conf till it exits:

getuid()                                = 0
getuid()                                = 0
getuid()                                = 0
open("/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf", O_RDONLY) = 10
fstat(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9734, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) 
= 0x7ff2afe14000
read(10, "# Master libvirt daemon configura"..., 8192) = 8192
read(10, " small fraction of the global max"..., 8192) = 1542
read(10, ""..., 4096)                   = 0
close(10)                               = 0
munmap(0x7ff2afe14000, 4096)            = 0
getuid()                                = 0
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 10
fcntl(10, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)   = 0
connect(10, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"...}, 110) = 
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
close(10)                               = 0
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 10
fcntl(10, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)   = 0
connect(10, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"...}, 110) = 
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
close(10)                               = 0
open("/etc/group", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC)  = 10
lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 0
fstat(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3287, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 3287, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 10, 0) = 0x7ff2afe14000
lseek(10, 3287, SEEK_SET)               = 3287
lseek(10, 935, SEEK_SET)                = 935
munmap(0x7ff2afe14000, 3287)            = 0
close(10)                               = 0
gettimeofday({1237738398, 390171}, NULL) = 0
open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY)        = 10
fstat(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2211, ...}) = 0
fstat(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2211, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) 
= 0x7ff2afe14000
read(10, 
"TZif2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 2211
lseek(10, -1410, SEEK_CUR)              = 801
read(10, 
"TZif2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\7\0\0\0\7\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 1410
close(10)                               = 0
munmap(0x7ff2afe14000, 4096)            = 0
write(2, "17:13:18.390: error : Failed to l"..., 5517:13:18.390: error : 
Failed to lookup group 'libvirt'
) = 55
close(3)                                = 0
close(7)                                = 0
writev(8, 
[{"l\1\0\1{\0\0\0;\3\0\0\177\0\0\0\1\1o\0\25\0\0\0/org/free"..., 144}, 
{"v\0\0\0type='signal',interface='org."..., 123}], 2) = 267
gettimeofday({1237738398, 391385}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN}], 1, 25000) = 1 ([{fd=8, revents=POLLIN}])
read(8, 
"l\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\5\0\0\0005\0\0\0\6\1s\0\5\0\0\0:1.31\0\0\0\5"..., 2048) 
= 72
read(8, 0x13b65e0, 2048)                = -1 EAGAIN (Resource 
temporarily unavailable)
close(9)                                = 0
unlink("/var/run/libvirtd.pid")         = 0
close(4)                                = 0
exit_group(1)                           = ?


srv-mfm-vm02:~# grep unix_sock_group /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
unix_sock_group = "libvirt"

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