[libvirt] Availability of release candidate 2 of libvirt-1.3.0

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 09:35:42AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 11:06:52AM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > 
> >    So as planned I tagged rc2 in git and pushed signed tarball and rpms
> > to the usual place:
> > 
> >   ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/
> > 
> >  but in my testing I'm hitting a serious issue. After upgrading to the new
> > set of rpms and restarting the service and virt-manager, while virt-manager
> > can connect and list the guests it fails to start a guest with the following
> > error message:
> > 
> >   Error starting domain: 
> >    Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/virtlogd-sock':
> >                                  No such file or directory
> > 
> >  That to me is a release blocker we need to have that in place upgrade working,
> > we can't just pull the socket even if we may have another better mechanism.
> > So unless there is a good reason for this due to my setup and not the update
> > I would delay 1.3.0 and put an rc3 instead on Wednesday.
> 
> We register virtlogd with systemd for socket activation so that it should
> automatically start when first needed.

So it seems we merely get it enabled, but not started, unless you reboot.
So we'll need to add some more logic to %post to ensure it is started
if libvirtd is seen as running already


Regards,
Daniel
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