[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#774329: Bug#774329: libvirt-bin: Doesn't gracefully shutdown guests on upgrade restart

Daniel Dickinson debian-bugs at daniel.thecshore.com
Mon Feb 2 02:46:43 UTC 2015


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Sorry I didn't record that information at the time as I was in a hurry
and have no further information I can give you.

For now the bug will have to wait until someone else encounters it.

Regards,

Daniel

On 2015-01-07 2:30 AM, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 01/01/15 05:11 AM, Guido Günther wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 05:27:03PM -0500, Daniel Dickinson
>>> wrote:
>>>> Package: libvirt-bin Version: 1.2.9-7 Severity: grave 
>>>> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
>>>> 
>>>> If libvirt-bin has an upgrade requiring a restart it restarts
>>>> and kills currently active guests without first gracefully
>>>> shutting them down.  This can result in data loss due to
>>>> damaged filesystems (hence the grave report).  This also
>>>> happens with no warning so there is no opportunity to
>>>> manually shutdown the clients.
>>> 
>>> Libvirt keeps qemu guests running and reattaches to them.
>>> Please provide steps to reproduce. -- Guido
>>> 
>> 
>> Perhaps it's a systemd issue because after qemu-kvm session was
>> killed systemd still had a unit hanging about for it that
>> prevented me from restarting the vm until I rebooted the host.
>> 
>> I did verify that no qemu/kvm was running after.  Aside from that
>> I have no 'special' steps to reproduce other than that I had
>> libvirt-bin and a guest running, did an upgrade and discovered by
>> guest was gone and I couldn't restart it.
> 
> Please provide at least the version you upgraded from and the vm 
> configuration. -- Guido
> 
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