[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#598149: Bug#598149: libvirt-bin: autostart fails on reboot

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:26:43AM +0200, Jean-Louis Dupond wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:06:22 +0200, Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> > Hi Jean,
> > Are you using dependency based booting? Please check if the network is
> > fully up when libvirt-bin starts (e.g. by dumping the output of
> > ifconfing in the init script). It should be since we have a dependency
> > on $network in the init script.
> > Cheers,
> >  -- Guido
> 
> Hi Guido,
> 
> I am using squeeze with dependency based booting.
> 
> So I modified the libvirt-bin in init.d:
>   start)
>         if check_start_libvirtd_option; then
>                 log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
>                 if running ;  then
>                         log_progress_msg "already running"
>                         log_end_msg 0
>                         exit 0
>                 fi
>                 rm -f /var/run/libvirtd.pid
>                 /sbin/ifconfig > /root/if-boot
>                 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
>                         --exec $DAEMON -- $libvirtd_opts
>                 if running; then
>                         log_end_msg 0
>                 else
>                         log_end_msg 1
>                 fi
>         fi
>         ;;
> 
> 
> After a reboot I checked /root/if-boot.
> All the tap devices were created successfully, but still I got the
> following error:
> 
> Sep 27 10:21:22 cloud libvirtd: 10:21:22.407: error :
> qemudReadLogOutput:2118 : internal error Process exited while reading
> console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1#012could not open
> /dev/net/tun: Permission denied#012
> Sep 27 10:21:22 cloud libvirtd: 10:21:22.407: error :
> qemuAutostartDomain:827 : Failed to autostart VM 'dupondje': internal error
> Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to
> /dev/pts/1#012could not open /dev/net/tun: Permission denied#012

Could you check the permissions of /dev/net/tun the same way please?

Also please check if setting user=root/group=root in
/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf changes anything.

Please attache the domain xml of the domain that fails to start.
Cheers,
 -- Guido