[libvirt-users] libvirtd not starting

[Michal Privoznik]

On 5/2/19 12:08 PM, Lothar Schilling wrote:

> I turned logging up to maximum. That's all I get:
> 
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 systemd: Starting Virtualization daemon...
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : libvirt version: 4.5.0, package: 10.el7_6.7 (CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>, 2019-04-24-14:04:12, x86-01.bsys.centos.org)
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : hostname: my.server.net
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : virEventPollAddHandle:140 : EVENT_POLL_ADD_HANDLE: watch=1 fd=6 events=1 cb=0x7eff3bbde300 opaque=(nil) ff=(nil)
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : virEventPollAddHandle:140 : EVENT_POLL_ADD_HANDLE: watch=2 fd=8 events=1 cb=0x7eff3bd06760 opaque=0x558f9db485a0 ff=(nil)
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 systemd: Started Virtualization daemon.
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : virEventPollAddHandle:140 : EVENT_POLL_ADD_HANDLE: watch=3 fd=11 events=0 cb=0x7eff3bcfb420 opaque=0x558f9db69520 ff=0x7eff3bcfb3d0
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : virEventPollAddHandle:140 : EVENT_POLL_ADD_HANDLE: watch=4 fd=12 events=0 cb=0x7eff3bcfb420 opaque=0x558f9db69700 ff=0x7eff3bcfb3d0
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: process 472: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file ../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2754.
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
> May  2 11:02:06 hl308-3 systemd: libvirtd.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT

This is not the maximum loggin. We'll need to see debug logs:

https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/DebugLogs

and perhaps running libvirtd under gdb and getting a stack trace (with 
all strings expanded) might help too.

Michal