[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#778904: Bug#778904: libvirtd: internal error: unexpected storage mode for '/home/user/vm'

[Guido Günther]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 04:52:06PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 21.02.2015 16:22, Guido Günther wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 04:05:59PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> >> Package: libvirt-daemon
> >> Version: 1.2.9-9
> >> Severity: normal
> >>
> >> Dear Maintainer,
> >>
> >> /var/log/kern.log repeatedly shows errors like
> >>
> >> Feb 21 14:38:19 workstation libvirtd[1140]: libvirt version: 1.2.9,
> >> package: 9 (buildd 2015-02-06-16:39:25 binet)
> >> Feb 21 14:38:19 workstation libvirtd[1140]: internal error: unexpected
> >> storage mode for '/home/user/vm'
> > 
> > Very likely not a bug but a permission problem on one of your storage
> > pools.
> > Cheers,
> >  -- Guido
> > 
> 
> /etc/libvirt/storage/autostart has the following symlinks:
> default.xml -> /etc/libvirt/storage/default.xml
> Downloads.xml -> /etc/libvirt/storage/Downloads.xml
> tmp.xml -> /etc/libvirt/storage/tmp.xml
> 
> The symlinked storage definitions have the following path information
> Downloads.xml:17:    <path>/home/user/Downloads</path>
> default.xml:17:    <path>/var/lib/libvirt/images</path>
> tmp.xml:17:    <path>/tmp</path>

Well the error is from the storage backend. You should look at the
running daemons configuration not the on disk files (using virsh).
Cheers,
 -- Guido