[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#707201: Same problem

[Guido Günther]

Hi Edward,
thanks for your feedback!

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 03:50:59AM +0300, Edward J. Shornock wrote:
[..snip..] 
> Trying to start an existing VM in virt-manager:
> 
> 2013-06-16 03:34:26,075 (engine:878): Starting vm 'wheezy'
> 2013-06-16 03:34:26,082 (asyncjob:184): Creating async job for function cb=<function tmpcb at 0x35ccb18>
> 2013-06-16 03:34:26,320 (error:80): dialog message: Error starting domain: Unable to initialize /machine cgroup: Invalid argument: Error starting domain: Unable to initialize /machine cgroup: Invalid argument

That's from virt-manger itself. It's not the daemon's log (see either
syslog or /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log). No need to provide more
feedback at this point. I'll try to reproduce with the version
information you gave (won't happen in the near future unfortunately
though).
Thanks again!
 -- Guido

> 
> 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: Unable to initialize /machine cgroup: Invalid argument
> 
> 
> Running libvirt in debug mode doesn't show anything more.
> 
> > I do think this is related to libvirtd changing cgroup layout but
> > without any detail this is impossible to tell.
> 
> I think so too.