diff --git a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
index 77c72a5bf4..651d841f19 100644
--- a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
+++ b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
@@ -191,3 +191,7 @@
   /sys/devices/system/node/ r,
   /sys/devices/system/node/node[0-9]*/meminfo r,
   /sys/module/vhost/parameters/max_mem_regions r,
+
+  # silence refusals to open lttng files (see LP: #1432644)
+  deny /dev/shm/lttng-ust-wait-* r,
+  deny /run/shm/lttng-ust-wait-* r,