[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#623536: Bug#623536: Missing directory /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq
Guido Günther
agx at sigxcpu.org
Sun Apr 24 08:07:56 UTC 2011
tag 623536 +pending
thanks
Hi Ben,
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:39:18AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 0.9.0-1
> Severity: important
>
> When configuring a NAT network, libvirtd invokes dnsmasq and tells it
> to store state under /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq. However, the package
> does not create this directory.
>
> This directory appears to have been required since version 0.8.1, but
> it's not present in any versions of the package that I can see.
> Perhaps libvirtd is now checking for failure of dnsmasq whereas
> previously the failure was silent.
Thanks for you report. The directory is created by the daemon. Though I
think I found a code path that missed the creation. I assume there was
no error message in /var/log/syslog?
Cheers,
-- Guido
>
> Ben.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> APT prefers proposed-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
> ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
> ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
> ii libavahi-client3 0.6.30-2 Avahi client library
> ii libavahi-common3 0.6.30-2 Avahi common library
> ii libblkid1 2.17.2-9.1 block device id library
> ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii libcap-ng0 0.6.5-1 An alternate POSIX capabilities li
> ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.63-3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
> ii libgcrypt11 1.4.6-5 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
> ii libgnutls26 2.10.5-1+b1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
> ii libnl1 1.1-6 library for dealing with netlink s
> ii libparted0debian1 2.3-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
> ii libpciaccess0 0.12.1-1 Generic PCI access library for X
> ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries
> ii libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-8 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
> ii libudev0 167-2 libudev shared library
> ii libuuid1 2.17.2-9.1 Universally Unique ID library
> ii libvirt0 0.9.0-1 library for interfacing with diffe
> ii libxenstore3.0 4.1.0-2 Xenstore communications library fo
> ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library
> ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility
>
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
> ii bridge-utils 1.4-5 Utilities for configuring the Linu
> ii dmidecode 2.9-1.2 Dump Desktop Management Interface
> ii dnsmasq-base 2.57-1 A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
> ii ebtables 2.0.9.2-2 Ethernet bridge frame table admini
> ii gawk 1:3.1.7.dfsg-5 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
> ii iptables 1.4.10-1 administration tools for packet fi
> ii libxml2-utils 2.7.8.dfsg-2+b1 XML utilities
> ii netcat-openbsd 1.89-4 TCP/IP swiss army knife
> ii qemu 0.14.0+dfsg-5 fast processor emulator
> ii qemu-kvm 0.14.0+dfsg-1~tls Full virtualization on x86 hardwar
>
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
> ii policykit-1 0.101-3 framework for managing administrat
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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