-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/04/2013 04:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/08/2013 01:35 AM, Fuchs, Andreas wrote: >> I'd argue _for_ starting up libvirtd in case of errorous LC_* info. Since >> it is not a user-facing application but a system daemon, I think the >> impact of wrong language is small, but the benefit of having the daemon >> starting realiably is quite high. > > I still think that someone setting up the wrong language is a case of admin > error, and that failing to start is appropriate. But this issue just > caused a second bugzilla today: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026514 > > so you aren't the only one to have hit the issue. However, in reading that > bug, Dan Walsh (now cc'd) apparently didn't even find the stderr message > that tried to alert him to why libvirtd was exiting early. Whether or not > we apply your patch, there's the meta-issue that if libvirtd under systemd > outputs an error to its stderr, where does that message go and how does an > admin find out why libvirtd exited early? > Oct 14 17:43:48 redsox.boston.devel.redhat.com systemd[1]: Starting Virtualization daemon... Oct 14 17:43:48 redsox.boston.devel.redhat.com systemd[1]: Started Virtualization daemon. Oct 14 17:43:48 redsox.boston.devel.redhat.com libvirtd[646]: /usr/sbin/libvirtd: initialization failed Oct 14 17:43:48 redsox.boston.devel.redhat.com systemd[1]: libvirtd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Oct 14 17:43:48 redsox.boston.devel.redhat.com systemd[1]: Unit libvirtd.service entered failed state. Oct 14 17:43:48 redsox.boston.devel.redhat.com systemd[1]: libvirtd.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Oct 14 17:43:48 redsox.boston.devel.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopping Virtualization daemon... Oct 14 17:43:48 redsox.boston.devel.redhat.com systemd[1]: Starting Virtualization daemon... Oct 14 17:43:48 redsox.boston.devel.redhat.com systemd[1]: Started Virtualization daemon. This is what I was getting. libvirt initialization failed. Of course when I ran it myself it worked fine. Since the user session had the correct LANG set. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlJ4EUYACgkQrlYvE4MpobOpPQCfb6oN3Vxw48ccyG2eVBwV3Xks G5sAoIftVHsM1NSq705OB0H+hCpeTFuJ =T8QH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list