On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:47:14AM +0100, Emre Erenoglu wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > > ps ax shows the following output right after the service is started: > > > > > > 3605 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/libvirtd --daemon > > > 3624 ? Z 0:00 [libvirtd] <defunct> > > > > > > If I don't enable any network at /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/autostart, > > then > > > there's no error. > > > > This suggest libvirtd itself is *not* crashing. Some process that > > libvirtd runs is dieing - not sure which though. > > > > Please kill all libvirtd instances, and making sure you have compiled > > with debugging info turned on (ie, '-g' compile flag), then run > > > > # valgrind /usr/sbin/libvirtd > > > > And also try > > > > LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 /usr/sbin/libvirtd > > > > and send the output for both of these. > > > The output of these seperately, and combined (total 3 files) are attached. > Guessing that there might a compiler flag problem, here's what our default > compiler uses while compiling packages: The valgrind output was all fine - the warnings it issues are all harmless. The key is this message from the libvirt debug output: > DEBUG: util.c: virExec (dnsmasq --keep-in-foreground --strict-order --bind-interfaces --pid-file --conf-file --listen-address 192.168.122.1 --except-interface lo --dhcp-leasefile=/var/lib/libvirt/dhcp-default.leases --dhcp-range 192.168.122.2,192.168.122.254) > libvir: error : internal error cannot execute binary 'dnsmasq': No such file or directory This missing 'dnsmasq' binary is what is causing the 'defunct' process you see. If you install dnsmasq it should all work as expected Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list