Bug#799922: systemd-machined: error: error from service: CreateMachine: Activation of org.freedesktop.machine1 timed out

[Matthias Merz]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-17+deb8u2
Severity: normal
File: systemd-machined

Dear Maintainer,

when trying to re-start a guest machine (doing virsh shutdown to use
new library files in the qemu process), startup via
"virsh start <machine>" failed:

error: Failed to start domain <machine>
error: error from service: CreateMachine: Activation of org.freedesktop.machine1 timed out


The host in question is up for around 40 days. It seems as if libvirt
needs some dbus connection and systemd-machined for guest
startup. Restarting systemd-machined via "service systemd-machined
restart" cleared the situation.

So obviously, some sort of communication between systemd and dbus was
lost unnoticed - maybe by recent library upgrades and daemon restarts
by needrestart? Maybe some restart dependency is broken?


Yours sincerely
Matthias Merz

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/48 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl             2.2.52-2
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-59
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1+b1
ii  libblkid1       2.25.2-6
ii  libc6           2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-8
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-8
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-5
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.3-2
ii  libkmod2        18-3
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0     215-17+deb8u2
ii  mount           2.25.2-6
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-59
ii  udev            215-17+deb8u2
ii  util-linux      2.25.2-6

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  libpam-systemd  215-17+deb8u2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/system.conf changed:
[Manager]
ShowStatus=yes


-- no debconf information