[libvirt-users] virInitialize dumps core intermittently.

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Aug 12 08:58:10 UTC 2011


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:36:51AM -0700, Sharad Mishra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I have a host with 6 VMs set to autostart. When this host reboots, it
> starts libvirtd, pegasus cimom and libvirt-cim. It also restarts the VMs.
> Intermittently we noticed a core during start up that points to the last
> call made by libvirt-cim to "virInitialize". I am thinking that it is a
> timing issue where virInitialize is called  while libvirt is trying to
> autostart the VMs.

The virInitialize() API calls does very little, it merely sets up a few
internal data structures.

There is no attempt to connect to libvirtd until you call viConnectOpen,
so I can't see how virInitialize would race with libvirtd autostart.

To get more information, you really need to capture a stack trace of
the crash in GDB (or via Abrt)

Regards,
Daniel
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