Package: libvirt-bin Version: 0.8.3-3 Severity: normal My libvirt system got into a state where virt-manager would get stuck for a couple of minutes, and then give an error about locking problems. virsh, likewise. I had been able to start one VM, but starting the second one failed.
"Timed out during operation: cannot acquire state change lock" is the error. Here's a representative line from syslog (split into three to make it more readable): Nov 7 15:23:38 agnes libvirtd: 15:23:38.001: error : qemuDomainObjBeginJobWithDriver:410 : Timed out during operation: cannot acquire state change lock Search engines gave me this: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.libvirt/28718 I have not verified that the patch mentioned solves the problem for me. I cannot reproduce the problem reliably, but it's happened a couple of times now. If I restart libvirtd things start working again. The restarting fails, though: libvirtd stays running. I killed it with SIGKILL, before running "/etc/init.d/libvirt start". -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii libavahi-client3 0.6.27-2 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.27-2 Avahi common library ii libblkid1 2.17.2-3.3 block device id library ii libc6 2.11.2-6+squeeze1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcap-ng0 0.6.4-1 An alternate posix capabilities li ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libgnutls26 2.8.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libnl1 1.1-5 library for dealing with netlink s ii libparted0debian1 2.3-3 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s ii libpciaccess0 0.12.0-1 Generic PCI access library for X ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-6 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra ii libudev0 163-2 libudev shared library ii libuuid1 2.17.2-3.3 Universally Unique ID library ii libvirt0 0.8.3-3 library for interfacing with diffe ii libxenstore3.0 4.0.1-1 Xenstore communications library fo ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends: ii bridge-utils 1.4-5 Utilities for configuring the Linu ii dnsmasq-base 2.55-2 A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP ii gawk 1:3.1.7.dfsg-5 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr ii iptables 1.4.8-3 administration tools for packet fi ii libxml2-utils 2.7.7.dfsg-4 XML utilities ii netcat-openbsd 1.89-4 TCP/IP swiss army knife ii qemu 0.12.5+dfsg-2 fast processor emulator ii qemu-kvm 0.12.5+dfsg-4 Full virtualization on x86 hardwar Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests: ii policykit-1 0.96-3 framework for managing administrat -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org