RHEV: vdsm fails to start with permission denied error on libvirt socket
Issue
- VDSM fails
- host unable to install
- host not reachable
- following error can be seen while (re)starting vdsm:
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line 151, in get
conn = _open_qemu_connection()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line 95, in _open_qemu_connection
return utils.retry(libvirtOpen, timeout=10, sleep=0.2)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vdsm/utils.py", line 1087, in retry
return func()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth
if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Permission denied
clientIFinit::DEBUG::2015-12-03 10:54:51,483::libvirtconnection::150::root::(get) trying to connect libvirt
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- vdsm-4.16.27-1.el6ev.x86_64
- libvirt-0.10.2-54.el6.x86_64
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