[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 10:44:46PM -0700, Marc J. Driftmeyer wrote:
> Install just means an apt-get update/apt-get upgrade within Sid.
> 
> No dist-upgrade was made.
>
> 
> mdriftmeyer at horus:~$ journalctl /usr/sbin/libvirtd
> -- Logs begin at Sat 2014-08-02 19:02:24 PDT, end at Tue 2014-08-05 07:44:38
> PDT
> 
> /usr/sbin/libvirtd
> 
> Output:
> 
> mdriftmeyer at horus:~$ /usr/sbin/libvirtd
> libnuma: Warning: Cannot parse distance information in sysfs:
> Success

That's o.k. so the daemon starts.

> 
> 
> 
> On 08/06/2014 10:10 PM, Guido Günther wrote:
> >journalctl /usr/sbin/libvirtd

Nothing here ?

> 
> It just pukes on the libvirt-daemon-system package upgrade.
> 
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 2 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
> Setting up libvirt-daemon-system (1.2.7-3) ...
> Job for libvirtd.service failed. See 'systemctl status libvirtd.service' and
> 'journalctl -xn' for details.
> invoke-rc.d: initscript libvirtd, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing package libvirt-daemon-system (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libvirt-bin:
>  libvirt-bin depends on libvirt-daemon-system (>= 1.2.7-3); however:
>   Package libvirt-daemon-system is not configured yet.

Syslog would be helpful here.
 -- Guido

> 
> dpkg: error processing package libvirt-bin (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libvirt-daemon-system
>  libvirt-bin
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 
> 
> - Marc
> 
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