Activity log for bug #1500733

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2015-09-29 07:26:53 Steven Dake bug added bug
2015-09-29 07:27:01 Steven Dake kolla: importance Undecided Critical
2015-09-29 07:27:05 Steven Dake kolla: assignee Steven Dake (sdake)
2015-09-29 07:27:09 Steven Dake kolla: milestone liberty-rc1
2015-09-29 07:27:14 Steven Dake kolla: status New Confirmed
2015-09-29 08:40:33 Steven Dake summary centos uses libvirt.conf, ubuntu uses libvirtd.conf regression in /dev/kvm permissions, /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf unreadable
2015-09-29 08:42:12 Steven Dake description [00:14:13] <sdake> 2015-09-29 07:13:17.211 1 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: c037ca7f-2e97-4eef-abe5-840b5a72feeb] if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreateWithFlags() failed', dom=self) [00:14:13] <sdake> 2015-09-29 07:13:17.211 1 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: c037ca7f-2e97-4eef-abe5-840b5a72feeb] libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied [00:14:13] <sdake> 2015-09-29 07:13:17.211 1 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: c037ca7f-2e97-4eef-abe5-840b5a72feeb] failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied [00:16:46] <sdake> [sdake@minime-02 log]$ ls -l /dev/kvm [00:16:46] <sdake> crw-------. 1 root root 10, 232 Sep 29 01:19 /dev/kvm [00:19:54] <sdake> [sdake@minime-02 etc]$ docker exec nova_libvirt ls /etc/libvirt [00:19:54] <sdake> libvirt.conf [00:19:54] <sdake> libvirtd.conf [00:20:11] <inc0> yay [00:20:15] <inc0> we have a bug [00:20:40] <sdake> the correct file is libvirt.conf [00:20:44] <sdake> the one written is libvirtd.conf The /dev/kvm needs to be owned by root:kvm 660 but it is owned by root:root 600. CentOS sets GID to KVM and drops root permissions, so it can't access the KVM file. Further complicating matters, /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf cannot be read by this version of libvirt unless the permissions are 644.
2015-09-29 08:42:44 OpenStack Infra kolla: status Confirmed In Progress
2015-09-29 10:13:06 OpenStack Infra kolla: status In Progress Fix Committed
2015-11-20 21:27:51 Sam Yaple kolla: status Fix Committed Fix Released