[Libvir] [PATCH] Synchronous daemon restart

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 05:50:41PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
> 	See:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238492
> 
> 	Basically, doing a "service libvirtd restart", you see:
> 
>   libvirt-qemud: Failed to autostart network 'default': cannot create bridge 'virbr0' : File exists
> 
> 	and the default network is broken.
> 
> 	The problem turns out to be that the initscript doesn't wait before the
> old daemon has shut down before starting the new one.
> 
> 	The fix is simple - if you don't pass a kill level argument to
> killproc(), then it will block for a few seconds until the daemon has
> shutdown before killing it with a SIGKILL.

Looks fine to me. While you're at it, can you also add a 'reload' command
to the initscript which -HUPs the daemon to make it reload it config
and reset the IPtables rules.

Dan.
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