Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:56:48AM +0200, Dominik Klein wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am running kvm-78 with libvirt 0.6.1 and see the following error from >> time to time when my linux-ha cluster tries to run "virsh domstate" to >> figure out a virtual machine's state: >> >> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor >> >> In syslog, I see: >> >> libvirtd: 23:39:11.357: error : Failed to set close-on-exec file >> descriptor flag >> >> Due to this error, the cluster assumes the machine is not running okay >> and reboots it in order to fix things. >> >> This happened twice in 2 months with 10 machines being queried like that >> each minute (read: not too well reproducable) >> >> What is this and how could I work around it or is this fixed in newer >> versions and so worth an upgrade? > > I've never seen that error message before, but if I had to guess I'd > say that was a bug in 0.6.1 libvirt. There were quite a few really > nasty bugs in that release, which cause really wierd, random, and > inexplicable problems, so I'd really recommend updating to at > least 0.6.3 if at all possible. Thanks for the reply. I will try to update asap and if I should ever see this again, I will warm up this thread. Have a nice weekend, Dominik -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list