[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#710517: Bug#710517: libvirt-bin: Segfault when virsh destroy is called while virsh console is connected

[Guido Günther]

fixed 1.0.5-3
tag 710517 +pending
thanks

On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 11:02:33PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> found 710517 0.9.12-11
> fixed 710517 0.10.0
> tags 710517 + patch
> thanks
> 
> "Carpenter, Christopher" <ccarpenter at camber.com> writes:
> 
> > This bug seems to happen every time I try to virsh destroy (or use
> > appropriate libvirt API call) while already having an open console via
> > virsh console.
> 
> I also hit this issue.  It's not 100% reproducible for me, but almost.
> In a production cluster hosting virtual machines it leads to cluster
> fencing, ie. hard reboot of the affected host machine, as its VMs become
> unmanageable when libvirtd dies.  So I consider this a serious bug, but
> also an easy to fix one: upstream already fixed it as noted in the
> upstream tracker (altough an unrelated commit is mentioned there by
> mistake; I included the fixed line based on that info, not on testing).
> 
> I wonder why the original report indicated version 0.9.12-11.1, did that
> version officially exist?  On the other hand, it's actually the version
> given to my locally modified package (with the attached patch added to
> fix this bug).  Anybody interested can get it from:
> deb(-src) http://apt.niif.hu/debian wheezy main
> 
> As this bug affects wheezy, I hereby plea for including the fix in a
> stable update.

Thanks for digging this up. I've pushed this to the git's wheezy branch
for the next point release.
Cheers,
 -- Guido