[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#767188: libvirt-clients: Cannot access storage file error: success

[Robbie Harwood]

intrigeri <intrigeri at debian.org> writes:

> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
>
> Hi,
>
> frozencemetery wrote (29 Oct 2014 03:13:07 GMT) :
>> When trying to create a pre-exsting machine defined by an earlier version of
>> virt-manager,
>
> Any rough idea of what version it was? (Wheezy's? anything else?)

Sorry, forgot to mention: it was an earlier version of jessie's.

>> I get:
>
>> # virsh create /etc/libvirt/qemu/eudev.xml 
>> error: Failed to create domain from /etc/libvirt/qemu/eudev.xml
>> error: Cannot access storage file '/var/lib/libvirt/images/eudev.qcow2' (as uid:114, gid:127): Success
>
> May you please send us the output of
>
>   ls -ld /var/lib/libvirt/images/
>   ls -l /var/lib/libvirt/images/eudev.qcow2

This turned out to be the immediate cause: the libvirt and libvirt-qemu
groups had ceased to exist on the system (my own fault).

I've solved the problem for myself now, so feel free to close the bug
(unless you think it's worth keeping around to clean up the error
message).

Thanks for your time.