[libvirt] CreateMachine: Input/output error

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 26.09.2014 19:40, schrieb Guido Günther:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:06:39AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Sometimes libvirt (1.2.7) becomes unable to start any container.
>> Logs show only:
>> error : virDBusCall:1429 : error from service: CreateMachine: Input/output error
>> It looks like dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block() returns EIO.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this kind of issue?
>> I'm currently a bit puzzled where to look for the root cause.
>> Maybe it is related to dbus.
> 
> I've seen this while cooking up
> 
>   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-September/msg01549.html
> 
> once. The machine didn't get listed anymore with machinectl, there
> were no cgroups left but using systemctl I could still see a scope
> named after that machine like
> 
> machine-qemu\x2<vmname>.scope  failed failed
> 
> I didn't manage to get rid of that one besides booting.
> Cheers,

What systemd version did you use?

Thanks,
//richard