I have identical two hypervisors same operating system: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Recently both virsh stopped talking to the libvirtd. Both stopped within a few days of each other. Currently if I run: virsh uri virsh version virsh list # virsh list ..nothing just hangs When I ran strace on these broken machines it get stuck at same spot: strace virsh list ... access("/var/run/libvirt/virtqemud-sock", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock", F_OK) = 0 socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 5 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock"}, 110) = 0 getsockname(5, {sa_family=AF_UNIX}, [128 => 2]) = 0 futex(0x7fa716a672f0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 fcntl(5, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 futex(0x7fa716a67348, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 eventfd2(0, EFD_CLOEXEC|EFD_NONBLOCK) = 6 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 write(4, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 write(4, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 futex(0x7fa70c001cb0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1 futex(0x7fa716a6786c, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 futex(0x7fa716a67378, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 write(4, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 futex(0x7fa70c001cb0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [PIPE CHLD WINCH], [], 8) = 0 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLOUT}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1) = 2 ([{fd=5, revents=POLLOUT}, {fd=6, revents=POLLIN}]) read(6, "\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 8 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 futex(0x5628ce6e9710, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 write(5, "\0\0\0\34 \0\200\206\0\0\0\1\0\0\0B\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 28) = 28 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [PIPE CHLD WINCH], [], 8) = 0 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1) = 1 ([{fd=6, revents=POLLIN}]) read(6, "\5\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 8 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 It gets stuck at this poll(). Note I tested strace on identical new install of ubtuntu 22.04 where virsh connects fine and get identical strace, except after this poll() it continues on with read/write ..etc. I turned on debugging for libvirtd and get no errors while virsh is trying to connect. I am able to get a virsh# shell. The shell only hangs when I try "connect, uri, version". Another method of debugging I tried was: LIBVIRT_DEBUG=error LIBVIRT_LOG_FILTERS="1:* " virsh uri .. .. 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : doRemoteOpen:1128 : Trying authentication 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virNetMessageNew:44 : msg=0x55b996539680 tracked=0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virNetMessageEncodePayload:383 : Encode length as 28 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: info : virNetClientSendInternal:2151 : RPC_CLIENT_MSG_TX_QUEUE: client=0x55b996538010 len=28 prog=536903814 vers=1 proc=66 type=0 status=0 serial=0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virNetClientCallNew:2107 : New call 0x55b996535f80: msg=0x55b996539680, expectReply=1, nonBlock=0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virNetClientIO:1920 : Outgoing message prog=536903814 version=1 serial=0 proc=66 type=0 length=28 dispatch=(nil) 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virNetClientIO:1978 : We have the buck head=0x55b996535f80 call=0x55b996535f80 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: info : virEventGLibHandleUpdate:195 : EVENT_GLIB_UPDATE_HANDLE: watch=1 events=0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virEventGLibHandleUpdate:206 : Update handle data=0x55b996534d30 watch=1 fd=5 events=0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virEventGLibHandleUpdate:229 : Removed old handle source=0x55b996534de0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1648: debug : virEventRunDefaultImpl:341 : running default event implementation Any help would be appreciated. thanks jerry