Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] tools: skip libvirt-guests fast if libvirtd is not active

The most common operation of libvirt-guests is to manage the local libvirtd. But users might have disabled that and while we are After=libvirtd for ordering we are not Requiring it.. OTOH adding that or any harder dependency might affect our ordering. But if people have disabled libvirt they will do a full retry loop until timeout. Lets check if the local service is active at all and skip fast if it is not. Fixes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1854653 Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies(a)telus.net&gt; Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt(a)canonical.com&gt; --- tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in b/tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in index 4bc6e866f0..5a9930ee2f 100644 --- a/tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in +++ b/tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in @@ -90,6 +90,14 @@ test_connect() { uri=$1 + if [ "x$uri" = xdefault ]; then + # Default config is most common and for the local libvirtd + # Check if it is active before wasting time in connect loop + if ! systemctl -q is-active libvirtd; then