[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#757952: libvirt-daemon-system: upgrade from 1.2.4-3 to 1.2.7-6 fails- the old daemon is still running

[Christian Weeks]

Package: libvirt-daemon-system
Version: 1.2.7-6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I just ran a dist-upgrade to uptake the latest sid updates. libvirt appears
to have upgraded from 1.2.4-3 to 1.2.7-6, and is failing during upgrade.

# dpkg --configure --pending
Setting up libvirt-daemon-system (1.2.7-6) ...
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 (>= 1.2.7-6); however:
  Package libvirt-daemon-system is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libvirt-bin (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-boxes:
 gnome-boxes depends on libvirt-bin; however:
  Package libvirt-bin is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package gnome-boxes (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libvirt-daemon-system
 libvirt-bin
 gnome-boxes

The systemd journal doesn't contain much that is useful:

# systemctl status libvirtd.service
libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Tue 2014-08-12 13:13:10 EDT; 4min 55s ago
     Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
           http://libvirt.org
  Process: 11588 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/libvirtd $libvirtd_opts (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 11588 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   CGroup: /system.slice/libvirtd.service

Aug 12 13:13:10 smartie systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualization daemon.
Aug 12 13:13:10 smartie systemd[1]: Unit libvirtd.service entered failed state.
Aug 12 13:13:10 smartie systemd[1]: libvirtd.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Aug 12 13:13:10 smartie systemd[1]: Stopping Virtualization daemon...
Aug 12 13:13:10 smartie systemd[1]: Starting Virtualization daemon...
Aug 12 13:13:10 smartie systemd[1]: libvirtd.service start request repeated too quickly, refus...art.
Aug 12 13:13:10 smartie systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualization daemon.
Aug 12 13:13:10 smartie systemd[1]: Unit libvirtd.service entered failed state.

However, running the daemon doesn't work:

# libvirtd 
2014-08-12 17:19:27.217+0000: 11832: info : libvirt version: 1.2.7, package: 6 (root 2014-08-08-16:09:22 bogon)
2014-08-12 17:19:27.217+0000: 11832: error : virPidFileAcquirePath:414 : Failed to acquire pid file '/var/run/libvirtd.pid': Resource temporarily unavailable

It appears the pid file already exists, owned by the previous libvirt daemon:

# ps aux | fgrep virt
root      1202  0.0  0.0 413344 15744 ?        Ssl  Aug08   0:00 /usr/sbin/libvirtd

My guess: you're not shutting down the old daemon during the upgrade.

Killing the old daemon fixes the issue:

root at smartie:~# kill 1202
root at smartie:~# 
root at smartie:~# 
root at smartie:~# dpkg --configure --pending
Setting up libvirt-daemon-system (1.2.7-6) ...
Setting up libvirt-bin (1.2.7-6) ...
Setting up gnome-boxes (3.12.3-1) ...

I hope this helps.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (501, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (399, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon-system depends on:
ii  adduser              3.113+nmu3
ii  gettext-base         0.19.2-1
ii  init-system-helpers  1.20
ii  libapparmor1         2.8.0-5.1+b1
ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.7-1
ii  libavahi-client3     0.6.31-4
ii  libavahi-common3     0.6.31-4
ii  libblkid1            2.20.1-5.8
ii  libc6                2.19-7
ii  libcap-ng0           0.7.3-1.1
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.6-1
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1   2:1.02.85-2
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28    3.2.16-1
ii  libnl-3-200          3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200    3.2.24-2
ii  libnuma1             2.0.9-1
ii  librados2            0.80.5-1
ii  librbd1              0.80.5-1
ii  libsasl2-2           2.1.26.dfsg1-11
ii  libselinux1          2.3-1
ii  libssh2-1            1.4.3-3
ii  libsystemd-daemon0   208-7
ii  libvirt-clients      1.2.7-6
ii  libvirt-daemon       1.2.7-6
ii  libvirt0             1.2.7-6
ii  libxml2              2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  libyajl2             2.1.0-1
ii  logrotate            3.8.7-1

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon-system recommends:
ii  bridge-utils  1.5-9
ii  dmidecode     2.12-3
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.71-1
ii  ebtables      2.0.10.4-3
ii  iproute2      3.16.0-1
ii  iptables      1.4.21-2
ii  parted        3.2-4
ii  pm-utils      1.4.1-15

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon-system suggests:
pn  apparmor     <none>
pn  auditd       <none>
ii  policykit-1  0.112-2
pn  radvd        <none>
ii  systemd      208-7
pn  systemtap    <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf'

-- no debconf information