Hi Lars, On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 01:56:40PM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > 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".
I've merged the patch into the current package and put debs here: http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libvirt/snapshots/sid/ Any chance you could test these? The only change is the nwfilter/qemu locking fix. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org