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[Leander Bessa Beernaert <leanderbb@xxxxxxxxx>]

It only hangs when invoked as root. With standard user permissions it works
just fine.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Kiall Mac Innes <kiall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does `virsh list` still hang? Until that succeeds, nova is not the
> problem..
>
> Thanks,
> Kiall
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Leander Bessa Beernaert <
> leanderbb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I stopped nova-compute, restarted libvirt-bin and then started
>> nova-compute. Yet, the issue still remains :/
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Kiall Mac Innes <kiall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Almost all of the libvirt issues I ran into were "fixed" by restarting
>>> libvirt, and on one occasion, rebooting the server.
>>>
>>> I narrowed some of the issues down to various libvirt bugs at the time,
>>> but never followed up after an Ubuntu update fixed the issues..
>>>
>>> All that said, "I tried 'virsh list', and the command hangs." sounds
>>> very familiar - as does your log output ;)
>>>
>>> Have you attempted to restart libvirt yet? (`service libvirt-bin
>>> restart`)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kiall
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Leander Bessa Beernaert <
>>> leanderbb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do you have any suggestions on where to start looking for libvirt
>>>> issues? I've tried looking at the logs from libvirt, but they did not show
>>>> any indication of errors.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Kiall Mac Innes <kiall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Alisson Soares Limeira Pontes <
>>>>> apontes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If the problem is libvirt, nova-compute should not be running, and it
>>>>>> would be reported in the /var/log/nova/nova.conf and in
>>>>>> /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Verify with
>>>>>> $ service nova-compute status
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've seen *many* cases where nova stalls due to some libvirt issues.
>>>>> I wouldn't be so quick to rule libvirt out just because the nova-compute
>>>>> process is alive!
>>>>>
>>>>> It can also be a sincronization problem.
>>>>>> Did you properly configured ntp??
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe this is a single server (well .. VM) setup. NTP /
>>>>> time synchronization should not be an issue.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Kiall
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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