[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#635522: Bug#635522: libvirt-bin: libvirt-suspendonreboot directory not-exists

[Guido Günther]

severity 635522 normal
thanks

Hi,
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 04:32:55PM +0200, Jakub Bittner wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 0.8.3-5+squeeze2
> Severity: critical
> Justification: causes serious data loss
> 
> libvirt-suspendonreboot fails suspending and resuming virtual guests
> because the directory /var/lib/libvirt/autosuspend/ is missing. There
> should be check if dir exists or so.

This script is shipped in examples so lowering the severity to normal.

It's fixed in newer versions since we use upstream's libvirt-guest for
that (available via bpo). It'd be glad to add a well tested patch to the
squeeze version and try to slip it into the next pointrelease.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.2
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
> ii  adduser            3.112+nmu2            add and remove users and groups
> ii  libavahi-client3   0.6.27-2+squeeze1     Avahi client library
> ii  libavahi-common3   0.6.27-2+squeeze1     Avahi common library
> ii  libblkid1          2.17.2-9              block device id library
> ii  libc6              2.11.2-10             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii  libcap-ng0         0.6.4-1               An alternate posix capabilities li
> ii  libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-5           The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
> ii  libgcrypt11        1.4.5-2               LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
> ii  libgnutls26        2.8.6-1               the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
> ii  libnl1             1.1-6                 library for dealing with netlink s
> ii  libparted0debian1  2.3-5                 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
> ii  libpciaccess0      0.12.0-1              Generic PCI access library for X
> ii  libreadline6       6.1-3                 GNU readline and history libraries
> ii  libsasl2-2         2.1.23.dfsg1-7        Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
> ii  libudev0           164-3                 libudev shared library
> ii  libuuid1           2.17.2-9              Universally Unique ID library
> ii  libvirt0           0.8.3-5+squeeze2      library for interfacing with diffe
> ii  libxenstore3.0     4.0.1-2               Xenstore communications library fo
> ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 GNOME XML library
> ii  logrotate          3.7.8-6               Log rotation utility
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
> ii  bridge-utils      1.4-5                  Utilities for configuring the Linu
> ii  dnsmasq-base      2.55-2                 A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
> ii  ebtables          2.0.9.2-2              Ethernet bridge frame table admini
> ii  gawk              1:3.1.7.dfsg-5         GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
> ii  iptables          1.4.8-3                administration tools for packet fi
> ii  libxml2-utils     2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1  XML utilities
> ii  netcat-openbsd    1.89-4                 TCP/IP swiss army knife
> ii  qemu-kvm          0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze4 Full virtualization on x86 hardwar
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
> pn  policykit-1                   <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
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