I had the same issue upgrading from 14.04 to 14.10. Purged/reinstallled libvirt-bin as in Message3, but with no effect. Installed apparmor- utils, and put libvirt into audit mode per first message, and libvirt works again. Thanks Christian for the workaround.
error from /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log: 2015-01-13 03:43:18.605+0000: 16428: info : libvirt version: 1.2.8, package: 1.2.8-0ubuntu11.2 2015-01-13 03:43:18.605+0000: 16428: error : virAuditOpen:62 : Unable to initialize audit layer: Permission denied 2015-01-13 03:43:18.607+0000: 16428: error : virNetlinkEventServiceStart:544 : cannot connect to netlink socket with protocol 0: Permission denied -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1386465 Title: apparmor profile prevents libvirtd from creating a socket To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1386465/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
