cgroup-bin stops libvirt from starting domains

Proposed fix is at https://code.launchpad.net/~serge-hallyn/ubuntu/maverick/libcgroup/fix-devices .

Hi Serge, thanks for the report. I'll test your change and if things look good (I expect so), I'll upload this patch to Debian. Then we should be able to file a sync-request to get it into maverick.

J

I tried the proposed fix on the lucid package by manually modifying /etc/cgconfig.conf and restarting the cg services and libvirt-bin.

That appears to fix the reported problem, but it also uncovers another. The vm attempts to start but fails with the following message:

error: Failed to start domain phobos
error: operation failed: failed to retrieve chardev info in qemu with 'info chardev'

Please scratch my last message. I'm only having problems with Windows XP vm's that do work in Karmic. My Linux vm's are unaffected. So it's most likely a configuration incompatibility between karmic and lucid.

Apologies...

Philippe, no worries. Thanks for the update.

Ok, I just uploaded version 0.36.2-3 to Debian. It should be in the archive within a few hours and a sync request can be filed to have it pulled into Maverick. In the mean time, I've uploaded backports of that version to my ppa:

    ppa:jbernard/libcgroup (https://launchpad.net/~jbernard/+archive/libcgroup)

I do not have permission to upload to Ubuntu, can someone help with this?

Cheers

Thanks, confirmed this lets VMs start through libvirt on my testbox. I'll create a sync
request.

Can you point to the sync request please? (from a glimpse, the update looks ok for a FFe at this point in maverick's release schedule, but I'd prefer to have another look at the sync request providing aggregated information on the Ubuntu delta and the Debian changeog).

I can't find it! Did something wrong? Created
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcgroup/+bug/620434 now
using requestsync.

Hi,

Am Thursday 19 August 2010 15:14:56 schrieb Serge Hallyn:
> I can't find it! Did something wrong?

ah, sorry, my bad, thought you had filed it already, and I couldn't find it.
Everything is fine :).

> Created
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcgroup/+bug/620434 now
> using requestsync.

Thanks!

Cheers,
   Stefan.

This bug was fixed in the package libcgroup - 0.36.2-3

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libcgroup (0.36.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * [a1bd2b] Add device controller to the default configuration
    (LP: #607849) - thanks to Serge Hallyn

libcgroup (0.36.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * [ae0921] Replace sysconfig with default in cgconfig initscript patch
    (Closes: #588494)
  * [412460] Fix config file reference in cgred initscript patch
  * [3822c1] Update cgred default configuration file
  * [17fdaf] Add cgconfig default configuration file
  * [577ac2] Bump standards version to 3.9.0, no changes necessary
  * [f28c7d] Fix typo in copyright file
  * [14244b] Remove redundant reference to BSD license in copyright file

libcgroup (0.36.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * [df1c38] Imported Upstream version 0.36.2
  * [afe1f0] Remove cgdelete manpage, included upstream
  * [afecca] Remove lscgroup manpage, included upstream
  * [e68c9a] Remove lssubsys manpage, included upstream
  * [54f5da] Fix install override to handle changed location of pam
    module

libcgroup (0.36.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * [8a9de6] Install shared object and symlinks in /lib (Closes: #583513)

libcgroup (0.36.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * [d1d65a] Add Vcs fields to debian/control
  * [2ca672] Exclude release candidates from debian/watch
  * [36e728] Imported Upstream version 0.36.1
  * [41bdfa] Remove missing-includes patch, included upstream

libcgroup (0.36-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * [be0275] Fix typo in debian/watch
  * [1db135] Imported Upstream version 0.36 (Closes: #582440)
  * [63e1bd] Remove cgget manpage, included upstream
  * [66f232] Remove manpages patch, included upstream
  * [5ab7ce] Remove pkg-config patch, included upstream
  * [47ea10] Remove sa_restorer patch, included upstream
  * [124d53] Add patch for missing includes, fixes build

libcgroup (0.35-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * [b5eb1b] Drop .la files (Closes: #579812)
  * [c9f683] Backport libcgroup.pc pkg-config file from upstream
    (Closes: #579753)

libcgroup (0.35-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use memset to initialize sigaction struct (Closes: #549581)

libcgroup (0.35-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Imported Upstream version 0.35
  * Remove manpage for cgclear, included upstream
  * Remove obsolete debian patches
  * Add missing manpages from upstream
  * Update debian/watch to support new upstream versioning scheme
  * Run autoreconf before configure
  * Stop removing RPATH from certain files, fixed upstream
  * Remove chrpath and docbook-to-man from build dependencies
  * Bump standards version to 3.8.4, no changes necessary
  * Remove redundant section definition for libcgroup1
  * debian/libcgroup1.install: replace hardcoded version with wildcard
  * debian/libcgroup1.install: include .la file in libcgroup1
  * debian/cgroup-bin.manpages: update installed manpages
  * Update manpages patch to escape hyphens
  * Depend on 'cgconfig' in cgred initscript (Closes: #549480)
  * Refresh cgconfig initscript patch
  * Include patch tags on vendor patches (DEP3)

libcgroup (0.34-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix initscript dependencies (Closes: #549480) - thanks to Petter
    Reinholdtsen <email address hidden>
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