[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#757609: Bug#757609: libvirtd internal error: Unable to parse /proc/meminfo

[Jamie Heilman]

Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi,
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 06:50:56PM +0000, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> [..snip..]
> > 2014-08-09 18:32:30.722+0000: 3589: info : libvirt version: 1.2.7, package: 6 (root 2014-08-08-16:09:22 bogon)
> > 2014-08-09 18:32:30.722+0000: 3589: error : virAuditOpen:62 : Unable to initialize audit layer: Protocol not supported
> > 2014-08-09 18:32:31.720+0000: 3712: error : virFileGetDefaultHugepageSize:2958 : internal error: Unable to parse /proc/meminfo
> > 2014-08-09 18:32:31.720+0000: 3712: error : virStateInitialize:749 : Initialization of QEMU state driver failed: internal error: Unable to parse /proc/meminfo
> > 2014-08-09 18:32:31.720+0000: 3712: error : daemonRunStateInit:922 : Driver state initialization failed
> > 
> > Reverting to libvirt-bin 1.2.4 allows libvirtd to work again.
> 
> Any chance you can test the attached patch? It fixes the above problem
> but there may be other hugetlb surprises working with your setup.

Yep, that works.  Although the build was made rather annoying by the
policykit-1 build-dep, and the poison that brings.

2014-08-10 22:16:26.387+0000: 25357: info : libvirt version: 1.2.7, package: 6 (jamie 2014-08-10-19:06:36 jimmy)
2014-08-10 22:16:26.387+0000: 25357: error : virAuditOpen:62 : Unable to initialize audit layer: Protocol not supported
2014-08-10 22:16:26.460+0000: 25370: error : virFileGetDefaultHugepageSize:2959 : this function is not supported by the connection driver: Hugepagesize: not found in /proc/meminfo
2014-08-10 22:16:26.524+0000: 25370: error : virNodeSuspendSupportsTarget:332 : internal error: Cannot probe for supported suspend types
2014-08-10 22:16:26.524+0000: 25370: warning : virQEMUCapsInit:983 : Failed to get host power management capabilities
2014-08-10 22:16:31.836+0000: 25370: error : virNodeSuspendSupportsTarget:332 : internal error: Cannot probe for supported suspend types
2014-08-10 22:16:31.836+0000: 25370: warning : umlCapsInit:74 : Failed to get host power management capabilities




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> From 930402215c050e52cab1ccf1960ad06123cd7c7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> Message-Id: <930402215c050e52cab1ccf1960ad06123cd7c7e.1407671364.git.agx at sigxcpu.org>
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Guido=20G=C3=BCnther?= <agx at sigxcpu.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 12:42:37 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Don't fail qemu driver intialization if we can't determine
>  hugepage size
> To: libvir-list at redhat.com
> 
> Otherwise we fail like
> 
>   libvirt version: 1.2.7, package: 6 (root 2014-08-08-16:09:22 bogon)
>   virAuditOpen:62 : Unable to initialize audit layer: Protocol not supported
>   virFileGetDefaultHugepageSize:2958 : internal error: Unable to parse /proc/meminfo
>   virStateInitialize:749 : Initialization of QEMU state driver failed: internal error: Unable to parse /proc/meminfo
>   daemonRunStateInit:922 : Driver state initialization failed
> 
> if the data can't be determined.
> 
> Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/757609
> ---
>  src/util/virfile.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/util/virfile.c b/src/util/virfile.c
> index f9efc65..b6f5e3f 100644
> --- a/src/util/virfile.c
> +++ b/src/util/virfile.c
> @@ -2953,8 +2953,9 @@ virFileGetDefaultHugepageSize(unsigned long long *size)
>          goto cleanup;
>  
>      if (!(c = strstr(meminfo, HUGEPAGESIZE_STR))) {
> -        virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
> -                       _("Unable to parse %s"),
> +        virReportError(VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT,
> +                       _("%s not found in %s"),
> +                       HUGEPAGESIZE_STR,
>                         PROC_MEMINFO);
>          goto cleanup;
>      }
> -- 
> 2.0.1
> 


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