[libvirt] CreateMachine: Input/output error

[Guido Günther]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:04:50AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> 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?

Debian's 208-8

Cheers,
 -- Guido