[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#564020: libvirt-bin: libvirtd segfaults at startup

[Gabor Gombas]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.7.5-2
Severity: important


Hi,

# gdb /usr/sbin/libvirtd 
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Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/libvirtd...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/libvirtd...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) set arg -l
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/sbin/libvirtd -l
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7ffff1dd3910 (LWP 5326)]
[New Thread 0x7ffff15d2910 (LWP 5327)]
[New Thread 0x7ffff0dd1910 (LWP 5328)]
[New Thread 0x7fffebfff910 (LWP 5329)]
[New Thread 0x7fffeb7fe910 (LWP 5330)]
[New Thread 0x7fffeaffd910 (LWP 5331)]
08:34:42.043: error : udevSetupSystemDev:1409 : Failed to get udev device for syspath '/sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id'

08:34:42.044: error : virStateInitialize:890 : Initialization of (null) state driver failed

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7ffff1dd3910 (LWP 5326)]
0x000000000047c08f in udevEventHandleCallback (watch=4, fd=15, events=4, data=0x0)
    at node_device/node_device_udev.c:1345
1345	node_device/node_device_udev.c: No such file or directory.
	in node_device/node_device_udev.c
(gdb)

The host runs Xen, and mostly lenny. The node libvirtd complains about above
does not exist in sysfs.

Gabor

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (102, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-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/dash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser           3.110                  add and remove users and groups
ii  hal               0.5.14-1               Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libavahi-client3  0.6.23-3lenny1         Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3  0.6.23-3lenny1         Avahi common library
ii  libc6             2.10.2-2               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap-ng0        0.6.2-3+b1             Development and header files for l
ii  libdevmapper1.02. 2:1.02.27-4            The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libgcrypt11       1.4.4-6                LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26       2.8.5-2                the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libparted1.8-12   1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libpciaccess0     0.10.3-1               Generic PCI access library for X
ii  libreadline6      6.0-5                  GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsasl2-2        2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libudev0          149-2                  libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1          2.16.2-0               Universally Unique ID library
ii  libvirt0          0.7.5-2                library for interfacing with diffe
ii  libxenstore3.0    3.2.1-2                Xenstore communications library fo
ii  libxml2           2.7.6.dfsg-1           GNOME XML library
ii  logrotate         3.7.1-5                Log rotation utility

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
pn  qemu                          <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
pn  policykit-1                   <none>     (no description available)

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