[libvirt-users] Libvirtd freezes

[Stefano Ricci]

Here is the backtrace of the libvirt process just started

https://pastebin.com/R66myzFp


Stefano

2017-04-27 15:12 GMT+02:00 Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>:
> On 04/27/2017 03:11 PM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> On 04/27/2017 02:02 PM, Stefano Ricci wrote:
>>> Hello everyone
>>> I come back to ask for a hand to solve a problem that has affected me
>>> since October 2016 and I have not yet solved using libvirt.
>>> I thought I would solve it by going to a 4.9.x kernel with qemu
>>> 2.8.1.1 and with libvirt 3.2.0.
>>> Compile it all in a stable LFS environment version 7.9 and that all
>>> checks pass without errors.
>>> The strange thing is that the libvirtd process starts without errors
>>> but has arrived at the qemu process launch to understand the system's
>>> capabilities freezes until the following process is killed
>>> /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -none-user-config -nodefaults
>>> -nographic -machine none, accel = kvm: tcg -qmp unix:
>>> /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/capabilities.monitor.sock,server,nowait-pidfile/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/capabilities.Pidfile
>>> -daemonize, since that time libvirtd resumes running and can be used
>>> with virsh.
>>> Performing qemu independently of libvirt works regularly, creates and
>>> runs virtual machines smoothly.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Stefano Ricci
>>>
>>
>>
>> I think I've read this somewhere else, but I don't remember where.
>> Anyway, my rough guess is that libvirtd is stuck on refreshing the qemu
>> capabilities. This is done on the daemon startup and until it finishes,
>> no API can be practically executed. Well, for the driver in question (in
>> this case qemu). Other driver should work just fine.
>>
>> Can you please attach debugger and get the backtrace for us?
>>
>> gdb -p $(pgrep libvirtd)
>>
>> ...
>> ...
>> (gdb) bt
>
> I mean more 't a a bt' which stands for 'thread apply all backtrace' =>
> get backtrace for all the threads. Thanks.
>
> Michal