From 67b2eb104239805791d8fcc5dc55cf01ef841ff9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cole Robinson Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:29:35 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] remote: Improve daemon startup error reporting If I toggle enable_tcp in libvirtd.conf and add --listen in /etc/init.d/libvirtd, I get the unhelpful error: Starting libvirtd daemon: error: Unable to initialize network sockets. Running without --daemon provides much more useful info: sudo libvirtd --listen 11:29:26.117: error : remoteCheckCertFile:270 : Cannot access CA certificate '/etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem': No such file or directory The daemon architecture makes it difficult to report this useful info if daemonized, so point users to /var/log/messages and dropping the --daemon flag if they want more info. --- daemon/libvirtd.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/daemon/libvirtd.c b/daemon/libvirtd.c index fefa7aa01f..cee6f13888 100644 --- a/daemon/libvirtd.c +++ b/daemon/libvirtd.c @@ -474,7 +474,10 @@ static int daemonForkIntoBackground(void) { goto again; if (ret == 1 && status != 0) { - fprintf(stderr, "error: %s\n", virDaemonErrTypeToString(status)); + fprintf(stderr, + "error: %s. Check /var/log/messages or run without " + "--daemon for more info.\n", + virDaemonErrTypeToString(status)); } _exit(ret == 1 && status == 0 ? 0 : 1); }