[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#613944: libvirt-bin: fails to start default network with dnsmasq 2.56-1

[Simon McVittie]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.8.7-2
Severity: normal

After upgrading dnsmasq to 2.56-1, starting the default network fails with;

    Feb 18 11:39:04 reptile dnsmasq[8253]: junk found in command line
    Feb 18 11:39:04 reptile dnsmasq[8253]: FAILED to start up

This is because dnsmasq's command-line parsing has become stricter; it no
longer ignores non-option arguments (#589885). I suspect this line in
src/network/bridge_driver.c:

    virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "--conf-file=", "", NULL);

should either be 

    virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "--conf-file=", NULL);

or

    virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "--conf-file", "", NULL);

There might be other faulty lines.

Regards,
    S

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-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          0.6.28-3       Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3          0.6.28-3       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        2:1.02.48-5    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libgcrypt11               1.4.6-5        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26               2.10.4-2       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.dfsg1-7 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libudev0                  166-1          libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1                  2.17.2-9.1     Universally Unique ID library
ii  libvirt0                  0.8.7-2        library for interfacing with diffe
ii  libxenstore3.0            4.0.1-2        Xenstore communications library fo
ii  libxml2                   2.7.8.dfsg-2   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  dnsmasq-base              2.55-2         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   XML utilities
ii  netcat-openbsd            1.89-4         TCP/IP swiss army knife
ii  qemu                      0.12.5+dfsg-3  fast processor emulator
ii  qemu-kvm                  0.12.5+dfsg-5  Full virtualization on x86 hardwar

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
ii  policykit-1                   0.99-3     framework for managing administrat

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