[libvirt-users] What can cause "libvirtd dead but pid file exists."

[Eric Blake]

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On 08/16/2012 06:50 PM, xuanmao_001 wrote:
> Hi, Eric:
> 
> I noticed that:
> # service libvirtd status
> libvirtd dead but pid file exists.
> 
> I operated VMs(like create, edit, delte) normally for a second, but the libvirtd on host was dead.

Usually a disappearing libvirtd is a sign of a bug; at this point, I
suggest seeing if you can reproduce it with 0.9.13, as there have been
several fixes for known libvirtd crashers in the meantime.

> 
> I checked the libvirtd.log but didn't find any useful information. so I want to know what can cause the problem?
> 
> another question:
> I found the message in /var/log/message like "libvirtd: Could not find keytab file: /etc/libvirt/krb5.tab: Permission denied."
> what is going wrong?

I'm not sure about this one; but you may want to browse through
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Troubleshooting to see if it has any hints,
and/or add a page to that wiki if you can determine what it was.

> 
> my libvirt version: 0.9.8.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> xuanmao_001
> 

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Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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