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):

# cat /etc/libvirt/storage/default.xml <!-- WARNING: THIS IS AN AUTO-GENERATED FILE. CHANGES TO IT ARE LIKELY TO BE OVERWRITTEN AND LOST. Changes to this xml configuration should be made using: virsh pool-edit default or other application using the libvirt API. -->

<pool type='dir'> <name>default</name> <uuid>4e2670b8-9dc3-528e-6fc2-58268e99f44f</uuid> <capacity unit='bytes'>0</capacity> <allocation unit='bytes'>0</allocation> <available unit='bytes'>0</available> <source> </source> <target> <path>/var/lib/libvirt/images</path> <permissions> <mode>0700</mode> <owner>4294967295</owner> <group>4294967295</group> </permissions> </target> </pool>

When you next restart libvirtd virStorageDefParsePerms() tries to parse that as an "signed int", which fails in virXPathLongBase() because of

182 if (*value != obj->floatval) { (gdb) print *value $11 = -2147483648 (gdb) print obj->floatval $12 = 4294967295 (gdb) print /x *value $13 = 0x80000000 (gdb) print /x obj->floatval $14 = 0xffffffff

This then prints the following error messages:

2012-11-23 14:03:18.877+0000: 25536: error : virStorageDefParsePerms:613 : XML error: malformed owner element 2012-11-23 14:03:19.581+0000: > 25529: error : storagePoolSetAutostart:1056 : Failed to create symlink '/etc/libvirt/storage/autostart/default.xml' to '/etc/libvirt/storage/def

The change to print owner and group as %d instead of %u was introdeces in commit 37a10129:

Update xml schemas according to libvirt source ... storage_conf: Print uid_t and gid_t as signed to storage pool XML.

Care to revert that change? Patch is attached. Sincerely Philipp -- Philipp Hahn Open Source Software Engineer hahn@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);