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

[Guido Günther]

retitle 694393 Not stopped properly on ugrades 
thanks

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 07:44:00AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> retitle 694393: Not stopped properly on ugrades when switching from sysvinit to systemd
> thanks
> 
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:51:38AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 07:31:42PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> > > We should figure out which part of the cgroup hierachy is missing. Could
> > > you install debugging symbols, attach to libvirtd and break at
> > > cgroup.c::virCgroupForDomain? Alternatively you can run libvirtd as
> > > documented on the wiki. This will also print out the names of the
> > > cgroups it tries to create. Once you got the cgroups name you should be
> > > able to check which part in the cgroup hierachy is missing.
> > 
> > I think the issue here is that libvirtd didn't die properly when I ran
> > service libvirt-bin stop.  As a consequence, I had to kill it off with
> > /bin/kill and when I started it manually using the formula from the
> > wiki, it worked fine.  Since the process ID was 1355, and I have the max
> > process ID set to 1048575, the service almost certainly had not been
> > restarted since I originally booted my laptop, which was before the
> > libvirt-bin upgrade.  For some reason, libvirtd is not being stopped and
> > restarted properly.
> 
> I adjusted the bugs title. Is it possible that you started libvirt with
> sysvinit, switched to systemd and then upgraded libvirt? In this case
> libvirt might indeed have little chance to get stopped properly.

Scratch that. We started to ship systemd service files in 0.9.13 not
0.9.12. Sorry for the noise.

> Cheers,
>  -- Guido
> 
> > 
> > If this is a bug in systemd, please feel free to reassign it there.
> > 
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