[libvirt] Availability of release candidate 2 of libvirt-1.3.0

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 11:51:01PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 10:27:15AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 09:35:42AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 11:06:52AM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >    So as planned I tagged rc2 in git and pushed signed tarball and rpms
> > > > to the usual place:
> > > > 
> > > >   ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/
> > > > 
> > > >  but in my testing I'm hitting a serious issue. After upgrading to the new
> > > > set of rpms and restarting the service and virt-manager, while virt-manager
> > > > can connect and list the guests it fails to start a guest with the following
> > > > error message:
> > > > 
> > > >   Error starting domain: 
> > > >    Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/virtlogd-sock':
> > > >                                  No such file or directory
> > > > 
> > > >  That to me is a release blocker we need to have that in place upgrade working,
> > > > we can't just pull the socket even if we may have another better mechanism.
> > > > So unless there is a good reason for this due to my setup and not the update
> > > > I would delay 1.3.0 and put an rc3 instead on Wednesday.
> > > 
> > > We register virtlogd with systemd for socket activation so that it should
> > > automatically start when first needed.
> > 
> > So it seems we merely get it enabled, but not started, unless you reboot.
> > So we'll need to add some more logic to %post to ensure it is started
> > if libvirtd is seen as running already
> 
>   Right, I didn't rebooted, merely upgraded the rpms from rc2 and
> restarted the libvirtd service, i.e. my usual testing routine

NB, there hasn't been any need to restart the libvirtd service
manually for a very long time now. The %post script always
restarts it.

Here is a patch that should fix virtlogd so that it is started
upon upgrades from libvirt < 1.3.0:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-December/msg00252.html

To test you'll obviously need to downgrade to some 1.2.x before then
installing the new 1.3.0 build

Regards,
Daniel
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