question regarding systemd ordering of libvirt services

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Wed Oct 28 22:22:05 UTC 2020


Hi All,

I'm not sure if the following problem is in systemd or libvirt. When restarting 
services and sockets *and* libvirt-guests.service is running, the latter will 
sometimes hang when trying to connect to libvirtd. Even though libvirt-guests 
has 'Wants=libvirtd.service' and 'After=libvirtd.service', we can see via 
journalctl that it is not shutdown before libvirtd when executing something like

systemctl try-restart libvirtd.service libvirtd.socket libvirtd-ro.socket 
virtlockd.service virtlockd.socket virtlogd.service virtlogd.socket 
virt-guest-shutdown.target

Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Stopping Virtualization daemon...
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: libvirtd.service: Succeeded.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Stopped Virtualization daemon.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: libvirtd-admin.socket: Succeeded.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Closed Libvirt admin socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Stopping Libvirt admin socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: libvirtd-ro.socket: Succeeded.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Closed Libvirt local read-only socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Stopping Libvirt local read-only socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: libvirtd.socket: Succeeded.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Closed Libvirt local socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Stopping Libvirt local socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Listening on Libvirt local socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Listening on Libvirt admin socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Listening on Libvirt local read-only socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: virtlockd.socket: Succeeded.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Closed Virtual machine lock manager socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Stopping Virtual machine lock manager socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Listening on Virtual machine lock manager socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: virtlogd.socket: Succeeded.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Closed Virtual machine log manager socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Stopping Virtual machine log manager socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Listening on Virtual machine log manager socket.
Oct 28 15:53:31 systemd[1]: Stopping Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests...

In this case, the try-restart command hung and libvirt-guests was stuck trying 
to connect to libvirtd. In the following case, the try-restart worked since 
libvirtd was started again before libvirt-guests was stopped!

Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Stopping Virtualization daemon...
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Stopped Virtualization daemon.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Closed Libvirt admin socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Stopping Libvirt admin socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Closed Virtual machine lock manager socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Stopping Virtual machine lock manager socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Listening on Virtual machine lock manager socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Closed Libvirt local read-only socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Stopping Libvirt local read-only socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Closed Libvirt local socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Stopping Libvirt local socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Listening on Libvirt local socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Listening on Libvirt admin socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Listening on Libvirt local read-only socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Closed Virtual machine log manager socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Stopping Virtual machine log manager socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Listening on Virtual machine log manager socket.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Starting Virtualization daemon...
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Stopping Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests...
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Started Virtualization daemon.
Oct 28 15:19:02  libvirt-guests.sh[4912]: Running guests on default URI: no 
running guests.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Stopped Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Stopped target Libvirt guests shutdown.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Stopping Libvirt guests shutdown.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Reached target Libvirt guests shutdown.
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Starting Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests...
Oct 28 15:19:02  systemd[1]: Started Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests.

Adding 'Requires=libvirtd.service' to virt-guest-shutdown.target results in 
something more reasonable

Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Stopping Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests...
Oct 28 15:40:00  libvirt-guests.sh[5245]: Running guests on default URI: no 
running guests.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Stopped Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Stopped target Libvirt guests shutdown.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Stopping Libvirt guests shutdown.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Stopping Virtualization daemon...
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Stopped Virtualization daemon.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Closed Virtual machine log manager socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Stopping Virtual machine log manager socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Listening on Virtual machine log manager socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Closed Libvirt admin socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Stopping Libvirt admin socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Closed Libvirt local read-only socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Stopping Libvirt local read-only socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Closed Libvirt local socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Stopping Libvirt local socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Listening on Libvirt local socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Listening on Libvirt admin socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Listening on Libvirt local read-only socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Closed Virtual machine lock manager socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Stopping Virtual machine lock manager socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Listening on Virtual machine lock manager socket.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Starting Virtualization daemon...
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Started Virtualization daemon.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Reached target Libvirt guests shutdown.
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Starting Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests...
Oct 28 15:40:00  systemd[1]: Started Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests.

I found that 'Wants=libvirtd.service' in virt-guest-shutdown.target was not 
strong enough. Should virt-guest-shutdown.target 'Requires=libvirtd.service', or 
do I need to look closer at systemd (systemd-246)?

Regards,
Jim




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