Re: [libvirt-users] Unable to start libvirt_lxc domain a second time after shutdown

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 04:42:18PM +0200, Florian Klink wrote: > Hi, > > I'm unable to start a lxc domain again after shutting it down. > > Something doesn't seem to "clean up" the socket file (and probably > more), as the error message says > > "Unable to start Domain: Failed to connect socket to > '/var/run/libvirt/lxc/test.sock': Connection refused." > > I can create a domain with the same config as the one thats shutted > down, but with other uid and name, of course, and I'm able to boot up > this domain. > > However, the init process is much shorter (some filesystems are not > mounted), so maybe there is still something left "open" after the lxc > container is shut down? > > I saw the problem in libvirt 1.1.2 and current git (1.1.3-rc2 plus 7 > commits, on 51e21ba7b6f59d6ad9339b2da2b75cc7704f9ecf) I'm assuming you are running on a distro with systemd ? If so, can you try out this patch https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-September/msg01671.html It tries to workaround a flaw in either systemd or kernel (we're not sure which is broken) that causes cgroups to not be cleaned up Daniel