Am 02.05.2019 um 11:43 schrieb Martin Kletzander: > On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 11:22:39AM +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> I've set up an new CentOS 7.6.1810 server. Then, via yum I installed >> qemu-kvm libvirt libvirt-python libguestfs-tools virt-install. There >> were no problems. But when I try to >> >> systemctl start libvirtd >> >> I get the following message: >> >> "libvirtd: process 472: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() >> were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed >> in file ../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2754." >> > > Firstly I would make sure that all the packages are up to date. I'm > not sure > what the relevant versions are on CentOS 7.6.1810, so saying what > versio you > have installed might help later. All installed packages are up to date. > > This message actually doesn't look like it comes from libvirt. Are > there few more lines in a log somewhere? > >> Starting libvirtd manually just by issuing the command "libvirtd" >> without any further arguments is working, though. >> > > As root? This would also make sense if the communication that fails > with the > above error is happening between libvirtd and systemd (when the daemon is > started by systemd). > >> I do not have the slightest idea what is going on, especially as I >> didn't change anything about the config files. >> > > I'm not really sure what the daemon is supposed to tell systemd apart > sd_notify() when it is starting. Maybe it is some value from the > environment that we're sending and the error originates there, > actually. Like the hostname or something similar. Again, having more > logs would help as I too don't really know what is going on in there. > >> Any help would be appreciated, thank you >> >> Lothar Schilling >> >> _______________________________________________ >> libvirt-users mailing list >> libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users I turned logging up to maximum. That's all I get: May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 systemd: Starting Virtualization daemon... May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : libvirt version: 4.5.0, package: 10.el7_6.7 (CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>, 2019-04-24-14:04:12, x86-01.bsys.centos.org) May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : hostname: my.server.net May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : virEventPollAddHandle:140 : EVENT_POLL_ADD_HANDLE: watch=1 fd=6 events=1 cb=0x7eff3bbde300 opaque=(nil) ff=(nil) May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : virEventPollAddHandle:140 : EVENT_POLL_ADD_HANDLE: watch=2 fd=8 events=1 cb=0x7eff3bd06760 opaque=0x558f9db485a0 ff=(nil) May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 systemd: Started Virtualization daemon. May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : virEventPollAddHandle:140 : EVENT_POLL_ADD_HANDLE: watch=3 fd=11 events=0 cb=0x7eff3bcfb420 opaque=0x558f9db69520 ff=0x7eff3bcfb3d0 May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: 472: info : virEventPollAddHandle:140 : EVENT_POLL_ADD_HANDLE: watch=4 fd=12 events=0 cb=0x7eff3bcfb420 opaque=0x558f9db69700 ff=0x7eff3bcfb3d0 May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: process 472: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file ../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2754. May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 libvirtd: D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace May 2 11:02:06 hl308-3 systemd: libvirtd.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
