[libvirt] Libvirt segmentation fault on non root user

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 01:56:24AM +0100, Vasco Silva wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Im trying to connet to libvirtd on my local machine, but i only can contact
> as root user.
> 
> When i run virsh command as root user, all works as expected:
> 
> [root at localhost libvirt]# virsh list
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
> 
> When i try to run virsh as user, i get the following errors:
> 
> [user at localhost ~]$ virsh list
> error: unable to connect to '@/home/user/.libvirt/libvirt-sock', libvirtd
> may need to be started: Connection refused
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> 
> on /var/log/messages, i found a segmentation fault:
> Jul 20 02:46:00 localhost kernel: libvirtd[22177]: segfault at 28 ip
> 0000000000496ca7 sp 00007f72a328bdf8 error 4 in libvirtd[400000+cc000]
> 
> 
> on my /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf, i have uncommented these 3 entries:
> 
> listen_tls = 0
> listen_tcp = 1
> auth_tcp = "none"
> 
> my system:
> Linux localhost 2.6.33.5-desktop-2xcm #1 SMP Tue Jun 22 15:53:23 WEST 2010
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux   - Mandriva Free 2010
> libvirt-utils-0.8.0-2mdv2010.1
> 
> I don't know how to resolve this segmentation fault, and what is the cause.
> Any help will be appreciated.

That's  a known bug in that version of libvirtd. Unfortunately I can't
remember what changeset fixing it was. If you get a stack trace from
it then it might remind me

Daniel
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