[libvirt] pool default not starting on f10

[Cole Robinson]

Cole Robinson wrote:
> Jason Guiditta wrote:
>> Hello, hopefully this is something simple I just don't understand how to
>> debug, but right now, it is keeping me from creating any new VMs.  As
>> stated in the subject, I am running F10, on x86_64 arch.  Libvirt
>> version is 0.6.1-5.fc10.  Using virt-manager to create a new vm, when I
>> get to the step to create a disk image, I get the error:
>> 'Storage parameter error. internal error storage pool is not active'.
>> Running 
>>
>> virsh pool-start default
>>
>> gets me:
>> error: Failed to start pool default
>> error: out of memory
>>
>> Note there is no reason my machine would be out of memory, is has 6GB
>> and nothing else running (and tried this right after booting)
>>
>> virsh pool-list --all
>>
>> shows default is inactive and 'yes' for autostart
>>
>> I would be happy to file a bug if needed, but thought I would throw this
>> out to the list first to see if I was just unaware of some simple fix.
>> Let me know if there are other details I can provide to make this easier
>> to solve. Thanks,
>>
>> -j
> 
> Can you try the following:
> 
> su -
> service libvirtd stop
> libvirtd
> 
> Then from another terminal:
> 
> sudo virsh pool-start default
> 
> And see if anything more informative is printed in the 'libvirtd'
> terminal: there may be a useful error that we are squashing somewhere.
> 
> Thanks,
> Cole
> 

Pool start triggers pool refresh, which indeed can squash legitimate
errors with 'out of memory'. The attached patch fixes this, but it would
still be interesting to know what your real error is.

- Cole
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