[libvirt-users] Virtual machine in state "in shutdown"

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:20:58PM +0200, Roland Everaert wrote:
> Restarting libvirtd doesn't change the situation.
> 
> But looking into the logs I see the following:
> 
> - Last lines in /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log:
> 
> 2016-07-05 13:26:42.792+0000: 24552: warning : qemuProcessKill:4419 : Timed
> out waiting after SIGKILL to process 48301
> 2016-07-05 13:26:42.792+0000: 24552: error : qemuDomainDestroyFlags:2120 :
> operation failed: failed to kill qemu process with SIGTERM
> 
> - lookup for process 48301:
> 
> [root at lpextvms003c ~]# ps -ef | grep 48301
> root      1114 24243  0 16:02 pts/1    00:00:00 grep 48301
> oneadmin 48301     1  4 Apr18 ?        3-08:14:18 [qemu-kvm] <defunct>

Ok, so your QEMU process has not in fact died completely, so the
libvirt state is correct.

Usual cause of a qemu going into a defunct state is a storage
failure which causes QEMU to be stuck in an uninterruptable
I/O operation wait state.

> So the process is defunct, does a 'kill -9 48301' could fix the problem
> with a restart of libvirtd?

No, as you see from the logs above, libvirt already tried to
send a SIGKILL and it had no effect. You need to figure out
what has caused QEMU to get stuck - most likely a storage I/O
problem on your machine

Regards,
Daniel
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