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Wasabi361

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Registered: 2023-05-13

Posts: 1

libvirtd.service not starting

Hey I am trying to start libvirtd.service but I get the following error:

[wasabi@archlinux ~]$ sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service
Job for libvirtd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status libvirtd.service" and "journalctl -xeu libvirtd.service" for details.

When I run the status command the following occurs:

[wasabi@archlinux ~]$ sudo systemctl status libvirtd.service
× libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/libvirtd.service.d
             └─override.conf
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2023-05-13 10:52:54 CEST; 4min 5s ago
TriggeredBy: × libvirtd-admin.socket
             × libvirtd.socket
             × libvirtd-ro.socket
       Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
             [url]https://libvirt.org[/url]
    Process: 824 ExecStart=/usr/bin/libvirtd $LIBVIRTD_ARGS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 824 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 7ms[/ins]

[ins]Mai 13 10:52:54 archlinux systemd[1]: libvirtd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Mai 13 10:52:54 archlinux systemd[1]: Stopped Virtualization daemon.
Mai 13 10:52:54 archlinux systemd[1]: libvirtd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mai 13 10:52:54 archlinux systemd[1]: libvirtd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mai 13 10:52:54 archlinux systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualization daemon.

Last edited by Wasabi361 (2023-05-13 09:07:50)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,344

Re: libvirtd.service not starting

The status unfortunately just says "tried to restart to often/quickly" - check the system journal and also https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_d … _core_dump to see whether the daemon crashes (and leaves a coredump)

Fyi, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libvirt#Daemon

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