[libvirt] CreateMachine: Input/output error

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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.

Yeah, some of systemd error messages are kind of unhelpful. Your best bet
is probably to strace the 'systemd-machined' process while you create it.
If you're lucky one of the strings you see will have the real original
error message in it.

Regards,
Daniel
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