Hello. I use libvirtd on my Gentoo development system to manage both QEMU and LXC. When 1.0.3 came out, I updated to it from 1.0.3-r2, but 1.0.4 failed to start my LXC containers. I did not research the issue at the time, so I revert to 1.0.3-r2. Today I updated to 1.0.5 and my LXC containers still fail to start. I have not changed my domain XML at all. I am looking for suggestions on what to try to resolve the problem. Maybe I'm missing a package or have something mus-configured for libvirt-1.0.5. btw, A month ago I updates to the most recent "udev" (udev-200). This required me to rename all of my network interfaces. My QEMU and LXC containers continued to work. All of my VMs use bridged networking on "br0" or "br1". Those virtual interfaces are not bridged to any physical NIC. They exist only inside my host's kernel. I have extensive iptables rules to filter traffic between my network segments (physical + virtual). TL;DR: this was burried in a log file: " error : lxcContainerMountFSDevPTS:808 : Failed to mount /.oldroot//var/run/libvirt/lxc/dwj-lnx-dev.devpts on /dev/pts: No such file or directory". But that directory DOES exist in the container: ostara ~ # ls -ld /vm/lxc/dwj-lnx-dev/dev/pts/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 27 2011 /vm/lxc/dwj-lnx-dev/dev/pts/ If I revert to libvirt-1.0.3-r2, I can boot my LXC containers again. But if possible, I'd like to keep my system current. I've ran the usual Gentoo tools to verify that all package dependencies are installed, revdep-rebuild reports that all ELFs link against the proper shared objects. ostara ~ # virsh --version 1.0.5 ostara ~ # equery l libvirt * Searching for libvirt ... [IP-] [ ] app-emulation/libvirt-1.0.5:0 ostara ~ # equery -q u libvirt | xargs echo -audit -avahi +caps -firewalld -fuse -iscsi +libvirtd +lvm +lxc +macvtap +nfs +nls -numa -openvz -parted +pcap -phyp -policykit -python +qemu -rbd +sasl +udev +uml +vepa +virt-network -virtualbox -xen ostara ~ # virsh -c lxc:/// list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - dwj-lnx-dev shut off - vm1 shut off ostara ~ # virsh -c lxc:/// start dwj-lnx-dev error: Failed to start domain dwj-lnx-dev error: internal error guest failed to start: PATH=/bin:/sbin TERM=linux container=lxc-libvirt container_uuid=fbcd8c3a-9939-12b4-727d-5d3526bc448f LIBVIRT_LXC_UUID=fbcd8c3a-9939-12b4-727d-5d3526bc448f LIBVIRT_LXC_NAME=dwj-lnx-dev /sbin/init error receiving signal from container: Input/output error ostara ~ # tail -n 10 /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log 2013-05-14 13:03:47.549+0000: 22352: info : libvirt version: 1.0.5 2013-05-14 13:03:47.549+0000: 22352: error : virDBusGetSystemBus:86 : internal error Unable to get DBus system bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory 2013-05-14 13:03:47.549+0000: 22352: warning : ebiptablesDriverInitCLITools:4233 : Could not find 'ip6tables' executable 2013-05-14 13:04:21.629+0000: 22341: error : virNetSocketReadWire:1362 : Cannot recv data: Connection reset by peer 2013-05-14 13:04:21.729+0000: 22345: error : virLXCProcessStart:1285 : internal error guest failed to start: PATH=/bin:/sbin TERM=linux container=lxc-libvirt container_uuid=fbcd8c3a-9939-12b4-727d-5d3526bc448f LIBVIRT_LXC_UUID=fbcd8c3a-9939-12b4-727d-5d3526bc448f LIBVIRT_LXC_NAME=dwj-lnx-dev /sbin/init error receiving signal from container: Input/output error 2013-05-14 13:04:21.731+0000: 22345: error : virNetDevSetOnline:544 : Cannot get interface flags on 'veth0': No such device 2013-05-14 13:04:21.778+0000: 22345: error : virCommandWait:2353 : internal error Child process (ip link del veth0) unexpected exit status 1: Cannot find device "veth0" 2013-05-14 13:04:21.917+0000: 22345: error : virCommandWait:2353 : internal error Child process (ip link del veth1) unexpected exit status 1: Cannot find device "veth1" ostara ~ # tail -n 10 /var/log/libvirt/lxc/dwj-lnx-dev.log 2013-05-14 13:04:20.894+0000: starting up PATH=/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.6.3:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i686-pc-mingw32/gcc-bin/4.7.2 LIBVIRT_DEBUG=3 LIBVIRT_LOG_OUTPUTS=3:stderr /usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc --name dwj-lnx-dev --console 22 --security=none --handshake 25 --background --veth veth1 PATH=/bin:/sbin TERM=linux container=lxc-libvirt container_uuid=fbcd8c3a-9939-12b4-727d-5d3526bc448f LIBVIRT_LXC_UUID=fbcd8c3a-9939-12b4-727d-5d3526bc448f LIBVIRT_LXC_NAME=dwj-lnx-dev /sbin/init 2013-05-14 13:04:21.562+0000: 1: info : libvirt version: 1.0.5 2013-05-14 13:04:21.562+0000: 1: error : lxcContainerMountFSDevPTS:808 : Failed to mount /.oldroot//var/run/libvirt/lxc/dwj-lnx-dev.devpts on /dev/pts: No such file or directory 2013-05-14 13:04:21.562+0000: 22562: info : libvirt version: 1.0.5 2013-05-14 13:04:21.562+0000: 22562: error : virLXCControllerRun:1481 : error receiving signal from container: Input/output error error receiving signal from container: Input/output error 2013-05-14 13:04:21.628+0000: 22562: error : virCommandWait:2353 : internal error Child process (ip link del veth1) unexpected exit status 1: Cannot find device "veth1" ostara ~ # virsh -c lxc:/// dumpxml dwj-lnx-dev <domain type='lxc'> <name>dwj-lnx-dev</name> <uuid>fbcd8c3a-9939-12b4-727d-5d3526bc448f</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>500000</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>500000</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu> <resource> <partition>/machine</partition> </resource> <os> <type arch='x86_64'>exe</type> <init>/sbin/init</init> </os> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/vm/lxc/dwj-lnx-dev'/> <target dir='/'/> </filesystem> <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/usr/portage'/> <target dir='/usr/portage'/> </filesystem> <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/usr/src'/> <target dir='/usr/src'/> </filesystem> <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/home'/> <target dir='/home'/> </filesystem> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='82:00:00:00:01:00'/> <source bridge='br0'/> </interface> <console type='pty'> <target type='lxc' port='0'/> </console> </devices> </domain> ostara ~ # ifconfig -a | egrep -v "(RX|TX) (packets|errors)" br0: flags=4355<UP,BROADCAST,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255 ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) br1: flags=4419<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.3.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.3.255 ether 06:9b:23:fb:14:5f txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) enp4s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether bc:ae:c5:16:6f:3b txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) device interrupt 18 memory 0xfade0000-fae00000 enp5s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet xx.xx.xx.xx netmask 255.255.252.0 broadcast xx.xx.xx.xx ether bc:ae:c5:16:70:3f txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) device interrupt 19 memory 0xfaee0000-faf00000 enp6s2: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.4.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.4.255 ether 00:03:6d:14:78:30 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback) virbr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.122.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.122.255 ether c2:ff:56:b7:a7:cd txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet)