[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#757644: Bug#757644: lxc: Failed to allocate free veth pair

[Guido Günther]

tags 757644 -patch
thanks

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 01:26:18PM +0800, Rodney Lorrimar wrote:
> Package: libvirt-daemon
> Version: 1.2.7-6
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Since last Thursday, when I try to start an lxc domain, it fails with the
> following message:
> 
>     $ virsh -c lxc:/// start test
>     error: Failed to start domain test
>     error: internal error: Failed to allocate free veth pair after 10 attempts
> 
> If I downgrade the iproute2 package from 3.16.0-1 to 3.15.0-2, I no longer get
> this message.
> 
> The invocation of "/sbin/ip link add vnet0 type veth peer name vnet1" seems to
> be failing with the new version of iproute2.

Logs and configs please.
 -- Guido