[fedora-virt] libvirtd crashes host when autostarting

[Rich Mahn]

> On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:45 -0400, Rich Mahn wrote:
> > Summary:
> >    My host crashes when I use the autostart function in
> > libvirtd.
> > 
> > This command sequence works fine:
> > 
> > service libvirtd stop
> > virsh autostart mydomain --disable
> > service lib virtd start
> > virsh start mydomain
> > 
> > This command sequence will crash the host:
> > 
> > service libvirtd stop
> > virsh autostart mydomain
> > service libvirtd start
> > 
> > 
> > I can't find any error messages related to this.  The host system
> > freezes, the keyboard starts blinking the caps-lock and scroll-lock,
> > and as best I can tell, the kernel has stopped running.

> Ouch, that's really bad. This is a 2.6.30 kernel, right? Is it still
> reproducible with an older 2.6.29 kernel or a 2.6.31 kernel from
> rawhide?

okay, it works correctly on 2.6.29.  I'm trying to figure out how to
install 2.6.31 from rawhide without having dozens/hundreds of other
packages modified as well.  Is there some option to 'yum' that will do
what I need?


rich