[libvirt] [Libvirt-announce] Entering freeze for libvirt-1.1.3

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 26/09/2013, at 10:05 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > On 26.09.2013 10:59, Justin Clift wrote:
> >> On 26/09/2013, at 6:30 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >>> I will probably make rc2 during the w.e. and depending on news push on
> >>> Tuesday next week or a bit later the final 1.1.3
> >> 
> >> Compiles ok on MacOS 10.7.  virsh starts ok too.
> >> 
> >> One weirdness noted from inside virsh (not connected to a
> >> hypervisor):
> >> 
> >>  virsh # version
> >>  error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> >>  error: no valid connection
> >>  error: Failed to find user record for uid '32766'
> >> 
> >> Not sure what the "32766" comes from, since that's not the id of
> >> my user:
> > 
> > Isn't it a PID of the virsh process? I think we fail to get identity for
> > the virsh process and mislead users by wrong error message.
> 
> Doesn't seem like it.  Just started virsh again, but the pid of that
> process doesn't match the # given this time (which did change though).
> 
> Terminal window 1:
> 
>   virsh # version
>   error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
>   error: no valid connection
>   error: Failed to find user record for uid '32706'
> 
> Terminal window 2: (virsh still open in #1)
> 
>   $ ps -ef|grep -i virsh
>     501 35262 35252   0 10:38am ttys000    0:00.03 virsh
>   $ ps -ef|grep -i 32706
>   $
> 
> Not seeing anything in the "327xx" range, and new pid's
> are (atm) in the "353xx" range.
> 
> Not sure where it's picking up the "uid" value from, and haven't
> really tried tracing it.  I wonder if it's just an OSX thing, or
> if maybe *BSD is showing something similar...

Attach to it with gdb and put a breakpoint on virGetUserEnt
and see what arg is passed up for the 'uid' parameter.

Daniel
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