Issue

• After a RHEL based RHEV host has been rebooted the following errors are observed:

init: libvirtd respawning too fast, stopped

• Despite that libvirtd is up and running and the PID at /var/run/libvirtd.pid matches the PID of the existing libvirtd process:

# ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -i libvirt
root      6566     1  0 Aug05 ?        00:00:09 libvirtd --daemon --listen

# ls -al /var/run/lib*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    4 Aug  5 15:31 /var/run/libvirtd.pid

/var/run/libvirt:
total 20
drwxr-xr-x.  5 root root 4096 Aug  5 15:31 .
drwxr-xr-x. 23 root root 4096 Aug  5 16:38 ..
srwxrwx---   1 root kvm     0 Aug  5 15:31 libvirt-sock
srwxrwxrwx   1 root kvm     0 Aug  5 15:31 libvirt-sock-ro
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root 4096 Jan 10  2013 lxc
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root 4096 Aug  5 15:31 network
drwx------.  2 root root 4096 Aug  5 09:28 qemu

# cat /var/run/libvirtd.pid
6566

• Shutting down libvirtd service succeeds:

# service libvirtd stop
Stopping libvirtd daemon:                                  [  OK  ]
# ps -ef|grep -v grep |grep libvirt
# ls -al /var/run/lib*
total 20
drwxr-xr-x.  5 root root 4096 Aug  6 07:56 .
drwxr-xr-x. 23 root root 4096 Aug  6 07:56 ..
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root 4096 Jan 10  2013 lxc
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root 4096 Aug  5 15:31 network
drwx------.  2 root root 4096 Aug  5 09:28 qemu

• After starting libvirtd service back the error is no longer observed but if the host is rebooted then the error happens again.