On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 02:14:49AM -0500, Laine Stump wrote: > But sometimes XDG_RUNTIME_DIR isn't set in the user's environment. Do you have examples of scenarios in which this happens, and yet the /run/user/NNNN directory is still being created, as that rather sounds like something is broken outside of libvirt. > libvirt actually depends on the directory being cleared > out during a reboot - otherwise it might think that stale status files > are indicating active guests when in fact the guests were shutdown > during the reboot). We could make our status files robust against host reboots by storing "/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id" in them. If boot_id has changed, we know the pidfile is stale. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
