[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#893257: libvirt-daemon-system (bpo) upgrade hard freezes system

[Jan Groenewald]

Package: libvirt-daemon-system
Version: 3.0.0-4+deb9u2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

   sudo apt-get -t stretch-backports dist-upgrade

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?

   Unpacking libvirt-daemon-system (3.0.0-4+deb9u3) over (3.0.0-4+deb9u2) ... 
   Failed to reload daemon: Connection reset by peer
   [ and then hard freeze, no numlock or sysrq response ]

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

   successful package upgrade.


   Post this, dpkg --configure -a froze system again
   I had to systemctl stop librt-guests and libvirtd, in order to dpkg --configure -a (which configured systemd but abandoned above upgrade)
   Redoing the dist-upgrade the exact same error and freeze ocurred.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon-system depends on:
ii  adduser                3.115
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.61
ii  gettext-base           0.19.8.1-2
ii  init-system-helpers    1.48
ii  iptables               1.6.1-2~bpo9+1
ii  libapparmor1           2.11.0-3+deb9u2
ii  libaudit1              1:2.6.7-2
ii  libblkid1              2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii  libc6                  2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libcap-ng0             0.7.7-3+b1
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.10.26-0+deb9u1
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1     2:1.02.137-2
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.27-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.27-2
ii  libnuma1               2.0.11-2.1
ii  librados2              10.2.5-7.2
ii  librbd1                10.2.5-7.2
ii  libselinux1            2.6-3+b3
ii  libvirt-clients        3.0.0-4+deb9u2
ii  libvirt-daemon         3.0.0-4+deb9u2
ii  libvirt0               3.0.0-4+deb9u2
ii  libxml2                2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u2
ii  libyajl2               2.1.0-2+b3
ii  logrotate              3.11.0-0.1
ii  lsb-base               9.20161125
ii  policykit-1            0.105-18

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon-system recommends:
ii  bridge-utils  1.5-13+deb9u1
ii  dmidecode     3.0-4
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.76-5+deb9u1
ii  ebtables      2.0.10.4-3.5+b1
ii  iproute2      4.14.1-1~bpo9+1
ii  parted        3.2-17

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon-system suggests:
ii  apparmor    2.11.0-3+deb9u2
pn  auditd      <none>
ii  nfs-common  1:1.3.4-2.1
ii  pm-utils    1.4.1-17
pn  radvd       <none>
ii  systemd     237-3~bpo9+1
pn  systemtap   <none>
pn  zfsutils    <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-arp.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-arp.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp-server.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp-server.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-incoming-ipv4.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-incoming-ipv4.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-ipv4.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-ipv4.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/clean-traffic.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/clean-traffic.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-arp-ip-spoofing.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-arp-ip-spoofing.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-arp-mac-spoofing.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-arp-mac-spoofing.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-arp-spoofing.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-arp-spoofing.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-ip-multicast.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-ip-multicast.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-ip-spoofing.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-ip-spoofing.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-mac-broadcast.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-mac-broadcast.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-mac-spoofing.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-mac-spoofing.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-other-l2-traffic.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-other-l2-traffic.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-other-rarp-traffic.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-other-rarp-traffic.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/qemu-announce-self-rarp.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/qemu-announce-self-rarp.xml'
/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/qemu-announce-self.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/nwfilter/qemu-announce-self.xml'
/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf'
/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml'

-- debconf information:
  libvirt-daemon-system/id_warning: true