[ovirt-users] Libvirtd Segfault

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Aaron West <awest at tamakizu.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I've been having some issues this week with my oVirt 4.1 install on CentOS
> 7...
>
> It was previously working great but I made a couple of alterations(which
> I've mostly backed out now) and I ran a yum update followed by a reboot,
> however. after it came back up I couldn't start any virtual machines...
>
> The oVirt web interface reports :
>
> VDSM Local command SpmStatusVDS failed: Heartbeat exceeded
> VDSM Local command GetStatsVDS failed: Heartbeat exceeded
> VM My_Workstation is down with error. Exit message: Failed to find the
> libvirt domain.
>
> Plus some other errors so I checked my "dmesg" output and libvirtd seems
> to segfault :
>
> [70835.914607] libvirtd[10091]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f681c7e7721 sp
> 00007f680c7d2740 error 4 in libvirt.so.0.2000.0[7f681c73a000+353000]
>

Ouch...

I would suggest enabling libvirt debug logs and perhaps enabling a core
dump if it's not enabled?
Y.


>
> Next I checked logs but I couldn't find anything that seemed relevant to
> me, I mean I see lots of oVirt complaining but that makes sense if libvirtd
> segfaults right?
>
> So last ditch effort was try and use strace and hope with my limited
> knowlege I spot something uselful but I didn't so I've attahced the strace
> output to this email in the hope someone else might.
>
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