Re: [libvirt] 5.6.0 regression: "Some activation file descriptors are unclaimed"

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 12:15:48PM +0000, Allen, John wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 01:30:26PM +0000, Allen, John wrote: > > > After upgrading to v5.6.0, starting libvirtd fails with the following message > > > in journalctl -xe: > > > > > > libvirtd[186338]: internal error: Some activation file descriptors are unclaimed > > > > > > 5b8569dd6e284b9159c701e8bffafb196983fc4a introduces the message. The commit > > > message indicates that systemd version 227 is required, but my system seems to > > > be running version 237. > > > > > > Is this a known issue? Is there any other configuration for systemd needed to > > > avoid the problem? > > > > Can you tell me what operating system you are seeing this on ? > > This is on Ubuntu 18.04.2 > > > > > Also, can you confirm that you're using the stock unit files that libvirt > > distributes, with no local customizations ? > > As far as I'm aware there are no modifications to the unit file. I produced > the problem by just pulling libvirt 5.6.0 and running: > > ./autogen.sh --system > make > make install > service libvirtd start Ok, I'll try to reproduce myself. One other question - did you have the official Ubuntu libvirt packages installed at the time you did "make install", or did you uninstall them first ?