[libvirt] /var/run/libvirt

[Stefan de Konink]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 11:49:46AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> > It is a trivial error, but i wonder if:
> >
> > Failed to change group ownership of /var/run/libvirt
> > Failed to bind socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or
> > directory
> >
> >
> > This could be corrected to:
> >
> > /var/run/libvirt doesn't exist
> > or an mkdir is done on the directory...
>
>   I see
>
> install -d -m 0755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_localstatedir}/run/libvirt/
>
> in libvirt spec file and
>
> mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/run/libvirt
>
> in qemud/Makefile.am as part of install-data-local rule. So it seems
> it really should be created appropriately as part of 'make install'

My /var/run is empty upon boot. (ramfs) One may wonder why libvirt needs a
dedicated directory at all for two sockets...

> a better reporting of the error would be fine, but something else went wrong
> first.

See the trivial part.

Stefan