On 02/26/2014 08:14 AM, junkmail wrote: > I am having a problem starting a VM and seem to be unable to determine > what > the problem is. I get the following lines in my log files. > > Feb 26 06:32:31 yours dbus[14359]: [system] Activating service > name='org.freedesktop.machine1' (using servicehelper) > 2014-02-26 06:32:31.914+0000: 14451: error : virDBusCallMethod:1205 : > Launch > helper exited with unknown return code 1 > Feb 26 06:32:31 yours dbus[14359]: [system] Activated service > 'org.freedesktop.machine1' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown > return > code 1 > > > This is running on Gentoo using dbus 1.6.18 Libvirt 1.2.1 qemu 1.5.3 > Kernel > 3.10.7 > > Let me know what else I can provide. Do you have systemd installed without using it as your init? Libvirt should probably detect this and fall back to manual cgroup creation as it would if systemd wasn't present on the system at all. Jan