[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#757293: Bug#757293: libvirt-daemon-system (1.2.7-3) fails to start

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 04:09:56PM -0700, Marc J. Driftmeyer wrote:
> Package: libvirt-daemon-system
> Version: 1.2.7-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Today's install resulted in a broken libvirt installation.

Install means "dist-upgrade" ?

> Output:
> 
> mdriftmeyer at horus:/etc/init.d$ sudo systemctl status libvirtd.service
> libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled)
>    Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Wed 2014-08-06 16:03:13 PDT;
> 21s ago
>      Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
>            http://libvirt.org
>   Process: 16200 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/libvirtd $libvirtd_opts (code=exited,
> status=1/FAILURE)
>  Main PID: 16200 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> 
> Aug 06 16:03:13 horus systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualization daemon.
> Aug 06 16:03:13 horus systemd[1]: Unit libvirtd.service entered failed
> state.
> Aug 06 16:03:13 horus systemd[1]: libvirtd.service holdoff time over,
> sched...t.
> Aug 06 16:03:13 horus systemd[1]: Stopping Virtualization daemon...
> Aug 06 16:03:13 horus systemd[1]: Starting Virtualization daemon...
> Aug 06 16:03:13 horus systemd[1]: libvirtd.service start request repeated
> t...t.
> Aug 06 16:03:13 horus systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualization daemon.
> Aug 06 16:03:13 horus systemd[1]: Unit libvirtd.service entered failed
> state.
> Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
> mdriftmeyer at horus:/etc/init.d$ sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service
> Job for libvirtd.service failed. See 'systemctl status libvirtd.service' and
> 'journalctl -xn' for details.
> mdriftmeyer at horus:/etc/init.d$ sudo journalctl -xn
> -- Logs begin at Sat 2014-08-02 19:02:24 PDT, end at Wed 2014-08-06 16:04:19
> PDT
> Aug 06 16:04:03 horus systemd[1]: Unit libvirtd.service entered failed
> state.
> Aug 06 16:04:03 horus systemd[1]: libvirtd.service holdoff time over,
> scheduling
> Aug 06 16:04:03 horus systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit
> uuidd.socke

This looks odd. 

> Aug 06 16:04:03 horus systemd[1]: Stopping Virtualization daemon...
> -- Subject: Unit libvirtd.service has begun shutting down
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
> --
> -- Unit libvirtd.service has begun shutting down.
> Aug 06 16:04:03 horus systemd[1]: Starting Virtualization daemon...
> -- Subject: Unit libvirtd.service has begun with start-up
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
> --
> -- Unit libvirtd.service has begun starting up.
> Aug 06 16:04:03 horus systemd[1]: libvirtd.service start request repeated
> too qu
> Aug 06 16:04:03 horus systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualization daemon.
> -- Subject: Unit libvirtd.service has failed
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
> --
> -- Unit libvirtd.service has failed.
> --
> -- The result is failed.
> Aug 06 16:04:03 horus systemd[1]: Unit libvirtd.service entered failed
> state.
> Aug 06 16:04:19 horus sudo[16228]: mdriftmeyer : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/etc/init.d
> ; U
> Aug 06 16:04:19 horus sudo[16228]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened
> for us
> lines 6-28/28 (END)

This doesn't make much sense to me yet. Could you attach the output of 

journalctl /usr/sbin/libvirtd

Could you also attach syslog from around 16:04:19?

If all alse fails could you do a:

/usr/sbin/libvirtd

Cheers,
 -- Guido