[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#694393: Bug#694393: libvirt-bin: error: Unable to create cgroup

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:31:53AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 1.0.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> I have a single VM set up with libvirt.  When I try to start it, I get
> the following:
> 
>   vauxhall ok % sudo virsh start azure
>   error: Failed to start domain azure
>   error: Unable to create cgroup for azure: No such file or directory
> 
> I get a similar error with virt-manager.  cgroup-bin is not installed,
> but installing it has no effect.  If it matters, I am using systemd as
> my init system.  Please let me know if you need more information.

The libvirt log would indeed be helpful, see /var/log/libvirt. Also see

http://wiki.debian.org/libvirt/Debugging.

I'm using systemd here myself so that alone probably isn't the issue.
Please also show us the output of /proc/mounts.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.6-trunk-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             3.113+nmu3
> ii  gettext-base        0.18.1.1-9
> ii  libaudit0           1:1.7.18-1.1
> ii  libavahi-client3    0.6.31-1
> ii  libavahi-common3    0.6.31-1
> ii  libblkid1           2.20.1-5.2
> ii  libc6               2.13-37
> ii  libcap-ng0          0.7.3-1
> ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.8-1
> ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.74-5
> ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.0-3
> ii  libgnutls26         2.12.20-2
> ii  libnetcf1           0.2.2-2
> ii  libnl-3-200         3.2.7-4
> ii  libnl-route-3-200   3.2.7-4
> ii  libnuma1            2.0.8-1
> ii  libparted0debian1   2.3-11
> ii  libpcap0.8          1.3.0-1
> ii  libpciaccess0       0.13.1-2
> ii  libreadline6        6.2-9
> ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.25.dfsg1-6
> ii  libudev0            175-7.1
> ii  libvirt0            1.0.0-1
> ii  libxenstore3.0      4.1.3-4
> ii  libxml2             2.8.0+dfsg1-6
> ii  libyajl2            2.0.4-2
> ii  logrotate           3.8.3-3
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
> ii  bridge-utils    1.5-6
> ii  dmidecode       2.11+20120326-2
> ii  dnsmasq-base    2.63-4
> ii  ebtables        2.0.10.4-1
> ii  gawk            1:4.0.1+dfsg-2
> ii  iproute         20120521-3
> ii  iptables        1.4.16.3-4
> ii  libxml2-utils   2.8.0+dfsg1-6
> ii  netcat-openbsd  1.105-7
> ii  parted          2.3-11
> ii  pm-utils        1.4.1-9
> ii  qemu            1.1.2+dfsg-2
> ii  qemu-kvm        1.1.2+dfsg-2
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
> pn  auditd       <none>
> ii  policykit-1  0.105-1
> pn  radvd        <none>
> pn  systemtap    <none>
> 
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml'
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> -- 
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