libvirtd fails to start with error 'libvirtd: relocation error: libvirtd: symbol numa_nodes_ptr, version libnuma_1.2 not defined in file libnuma.so.1 with link time reference'

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Issue

  • The libvirtd process fails to start and reports the following errors:
# /etc/init.d/libvirtd start
Starting libvirtd daemon: libvirtd: relocation error: libvirtd: symbol numa_nodes_ptr, version libnuma_1.2 not defined in file libnuma.so.1 with link time reference
                                                           [FAILED]

Environment

  • libvirt packages installed.
libvirt-0.10.2-62.el6.x86_64                                Wed Jan 10 22:46:57 2018
libvirt-client-0.10.2-62.el6.x86_64                         Wed Jan 10 22:46:24 2018
libvirt-python-0.10.2-62.el6.x86_64                         Wed Jan 10 22:47:46 

numactl-2.0.3-9.el6.x86_64 

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