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mbirkis

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Registered: 2013-12-12

Posts: 18

[SOLVED] Update broke libvirtd (1.2.21-1 -> 1.3.0)

I updated from libvirt 1.2.21-1 to the new libvirt 1.3.0 today.

After the upgrade libvirt won't start my domain. It errors out with the following error:

Error starting domain: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/virtlogd-sock': No such file or Directory

I have temporarily solved the issue by downgrading the libvirtd package back to 1.2.21-1.

Can i fix this issue (through some config, post upgrade tinkering), or is it simply a bug?

Last edited by mbirkis (2015-12-14 18:44:20)

HansAnderson

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Registered: 2013-12-17

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Update broke libvirtd (1.2.21-1 -> 1.3.0)

The problem lies with virtlogd.socket not getting started along with
libvirtd.service.

Start virtlogd.socket manually:

# systemctl start virtlogd.socket

sugartest

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Registered: 2014-07-09

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED] Update broke libvirtd (1.2.21-1 -> 1.3.0)

Thank's didn't think of it

By the way, should we consider enabling it at startup ?

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mbirkis

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Registered: 2013-12-12

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED] Update broke libvirtd (1.2.21-1 -> 1.3.0)

The problem lies with virtlogd.socket not getting started along with
libvirtd.service.

Start virtlogd.socket manually:

# systemctl start virtlogd.socket

This solves the issue, thanks a lot

Marking as solved.

mgrimes

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Registered: 2012-08-16

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Update broke libvirtd (1.2.21-1 -> 1.3.0)

I've been starting this by hand for a few years now. Luckily I very rarely have to reboot my VM host. Just realized that the libvirtd unit now installs virtlogd.socket (probably has for years). I just needed to re-enable libvirtd.service:

systemctl enable libvirtd.service