Browse code

Workaround Fedora libvirtd issues on Xen instances

Fedora libvirtd fails to start on Xen instances (i.e. rackspace
instances) due to [1]. This works around the issue until it can be
fixed upstream.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098376

Change-Id: I3790b5025982730263a6a84fce596e80f09efd5a

Ian Wienand authored on 2014/05/16 13:00:01
Showing 1 changed files
... ...
@@ -28,6 +28,23 @@ function install_libvirt {
28 28
         install_package libvirt-python
29 29
         install_package python-libguestfs
30 30
     fi
31
+
32
+    # workaround for
33
+    # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098376; if we see
34
+    # the empty Xen proc file then remove the xen/libxl plugin
35
+    # shared-libraries (yum remove would uninstall libvirt due to
36
+    # dependencies, so let's avoid that...)
37
+    if is_fedora && [ -f /proc/xen/capabilities ] && \
38
+        [ $(stat -c '%s' /proc/xen/capabilities) -eq 0 ]; then
39
+        sudo rm -f /usr/lib64/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_libxl.so
40
+        sudo rm -f /usr/lib64/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_xen.so
41
+
42
+        # another bug requires these to be restarted to avoid
43
+        # potential hang of libvirtd
44
+        # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098866
45
+        sudo service dbus restart
46
+        sudo service firewalld restart
47
+    fi
31 48
 }
32 49
 
33 50
 # Configures the installed libvirt system so that is accessible by