[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#707201: Unable to initialize /machine cgroup: Invalid argument

Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez clopez at igalia.com
Thu Aug 29 18:05:26 UTC 2013


This is a me-too report.


I have just upgraded from 1.0.3-1 to 1.1.1-1 of libvirt-bin and when
I tried to start a VM from virt-manager I got the following error:


Error starting domain: internal error: Missing '/' separator in cgroup mount ''

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 96, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 117, in tmpcb
    callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1160, in startup
    self._backend.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 698, in create
    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: internal error: Missing '/' separator in cgroup mount ''


Executing  "umount -l /sys/fs/cgroup" as suggested makes the problem go away.

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