Hello, when you install and use libvirt in a 32 bit environment, the handling of owner and group in /etc/libvirt/storage/*.xml is broken: The initial -1 is printed as an "unsigned int" and is thus converted to +(2^32-1): When you next restart libvirtd virStorageDefParsePerms() tries to parse that as an "signed int", which fails in virXPathLongBase() because of This then prints the following error messages: storagePoolSetAutostart:1056 : Failed to create symlink The change to print owner and group as %d instead of %u was introdeces in commit 37a10129: ... Care to revert that change? Patch is attached. Sincerely Philipp -- Philipp Hahn Open Source Software Engineer hahn(a)univention.de Univention GmbH be open. fon: +49 421 22 232- 0 Mary-Somerville-Str.1 D-28359 Bremen fax: +49 421 22 232-99 http://www.univention.de/ diff --git a/src/conf/storage_conf.c b/src/conf/storage_conf.c index 7944555..b07a7aa 100644 --- a/src/conf/storage_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/storage_conf.c @@ -1036,10 +1036,10 @@ virStoragePoolDefFormat(virStoragePoolDefPtr def) { virBufferAddLit(&buf," <permissions>\n"); virBufferAsprintf(&buf," <mode>0%o</mode>\n", def->target.perms.mode); - virBufferAsprintf(&buf," <owner>%d</owner>\n", - (int) def->target.perms.uid); - virBufferAsprintf(&buf," <group>%d</group>\n", - (int) def->target.perms.gid); + virBufferAsprintf(&buf," <owner>%u</owner>\n", + (unsigned int) def->target.perms.uid); + virBufferAsprintf(&buf," <group>%u</group>\n", + (unsigned int) def->target.perms.gid);