[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#732666: Bug#732666: severity:serious, since it breaks the upgrade

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 08:52:21PM +0000, Solveig wrote:
> Severity: serious
> found 732666 libvirt/1.2.0-1
> 
> thanks
> 
> Setting up libvirt-bin (1.2.0-1) ...
> [ ok ] Stopping libvirt management daemon: libvirtd not running.
> [....] Starting libvirt management daemon: libvirtdmount: special device
> cgroup_memory does not exist
> [warn] Can not mount cgroups layout ... (warning).
> invoke-rc.d: initscript libvirt-bin, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing package libvirt-bin (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libvirt-bin
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> I increase the severity, since it breaks the upgrade.

If you don't have memory cgroups enabled in the kernel you already broke
the daemon restart yourself by configuring it in. The discussion is moot
since we'll detect this dynamically in the future (with the next upload)
but it's rather a configuration error than a bug.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

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