[libvirt] 5.6.0 regression: "Some activation file descriptors are unclaimed"

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 12:15:48PM +0000, Allen, John wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 01:30:26PM +0000, Allen, John wrote:
> > > After upgrading to v5.6.0, starting libvirtd fails with the following message
> > > in journalctl -xe:
> > > 
> > > libvirtd[186338]: internal error: Some activation file descriptors are unclaimed
> > > 
> > > 5b8569dd6e284b9159c701e8bffafb196983fc4a introduces the message. The commit
> > > message indicates that systemd version 227 is required, but my system seems to
> > > be running version 237.
> > > 
> > > Is this a known issue? Is there any other configuration for systemd needed to
> > > avoid the problem?
> > 
> > Can you tell me what operating system you are seeing this on ?
> 
> This is on Ubuntu 18.04.2
> 
> > 
> > Also, can you confirm that you're using the stock unit files that libvirt
> > distributes, with no local customizations ?
> 
> As far as I'm aware there are no modifications to the unit file. I produced
> the problem by just pulling libvirt 5.6.0 and running:
> 
> 	./autogen.sh --system
> 	make
> 	make install
> 	service libvirtd start

Ok, I'll try to reproduce myself.

One other question - did you have the official Ubuntu libvirt packages
installed at the time you did "make install", or did you uninstall them
first ?

Regards,
Daniel
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