I've noticed that in some cases systemd was quick enough and even
if libvirt-guests.service is marked to be started after the
libvirtd.service my guests were not resumed as
libvirt-guests.sh failed to connect. This is because of a
simple fact: systemd correctly starts libvirt-guests after it
execs libvirtd. However, the daemon is not able to accept
connections right from the start. It's doing some
initialization which may take ages. This problem is not limited
to systemd only, indeed. Any init system that is able to startup
services in parallel (e.g. OpenRC) may run into this situation.
The fix is to try connecting not only once, but continuously a few
times with a small sleep in between tries.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Right now, libvirt-guests gives awkward output. It's possible to
force faster failure by setting /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests to use:
ON_SHUTDOWN=shutdown
PARALLEL_SHUTDOWN=0
SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT=1
ON_BOOT=ignore
at which point, we see:
$ service libvirt-guests restart
Running guests on default URI: a, b, d, c
Shutting down guests on default URI...
Starting shutdown on guest: a
Shutdown of guest a failed to complete in time.Starting shutdown on guest: b
Shutdown of guest b failed to complete in time.Starting shutdown on guest: d
Shutdown of guest d failed to complete in time.Starting shutdown on guest: c
Shutdown of guest c failed to complete in time.libvirt-guests is configured not to start any guests on boot
* tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in (shutdown_guest): Add missing newline.
Reported by Xuesong Zhang.
Most of this deals with moving the libvirt-guests.sh script which
does all the work to /usr/libexec, so it can be shared by both
systemd and traditional init. Previously systemd depended on
the script being in /etc/init.d
Required to fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789747