[libvirt-users] Error deleting a volume

[Alex Jia]

On 02/16/2012 09:52 PM, Bo Bo wrote:
> Hello group.
>
> This is my first post here so first of all I'd like to greet everybody 
> reading this group.
>
> Secondly, I have a problem with libvirt used from a perl script. I 
> would like to undefine a domain and afterwards delete the volume that 
> had been attached to the domain as a disk. The volume is a qcow2 file 
> and is placed in a 'dir' type pool. I succeed in undefining the domain 
> but trying to delete a volume using $vol->delete() crashes the 
> libvirtd. The script catches an exception:
Hi Bogdan,
The libvirtd works well after using $vol->delete() to delete a volume 
for me,  so I want to know your
environment such as libvirt, perl-Sys-Virt version and os platform etc.

Regards,
Alex
>
> libvirt error code: 38, message: server closed connection
>
> and the init process echoes an entry to the log:
>
> init: libvirt-bin main process (6999) killed by ABRT signal
>
> When I try to list volumes afterwards using virsh, I see that not only 
> the volume, but also the pool are missing. Moreover the pool that 
> holds a backing storage for the qcow2 file is also missing. It seems 
> that the delete operation actualy succeeds because the file gets 
> deleted from disk as well. Fortunately the backing storage file is 
> still present on the disk although its  pool in virsh disappears.
>
> Has anybody come across a similar problem before? Any help is highly 
> appreciated.
>
> Best regards
> Bogdan Katynski
>
>
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