On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:00:59PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Previously[1] I patched libvirt to add the virDomainGetConnect and > virNetworkGetConnect functions. The rationale for these is explained > here[2]. > > The attached patch makes the Python bindings use these functions instead > of storing the connection object explicitly. Hum ... The problem was the following: - you create a connection - you get a domain pointer from the connection - you delete the reference from the connection (e.g. by exiting the method) but keep the domain object - the connection count of the python object goes down to 0 - _del() is called on the object - the connection is closed at the C level - you have a dandling domain python object whose C pointer is dead Are you sure your patch is safe ? Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list