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

[Michael Biebl]

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Hi Matthias

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:11:23 +0200 Matthias Merz <debian at merz-ka.de> wrote:
> 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?

Sorry for not getting back to you earlier.
Is this still a problem you can reproduce? If so, I'd send you further
instructions how to debug this.


Regards,
Michael

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