RHEV : Unable to start VM's , throws error "internal error cannot getpwuid_r"
Issue
- Unable to start a vm and reports the below error
Engine.log
2016-10-25 03:35:41,841 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-17) [69612881] Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: VM redhatguestvm1 is down with error. Exit message: internal error cannot getpwuid_r(107): Success.
Vdsm.log
Thread-7153::DEBUG::2016-10-25 08:32:48,786::vm::358::vm.Vm::(_startUnderlyingVm) vmId=`47b47673-6807-4b0b-8d16-a138ab5c5d1e`::_ongoingCreations released
Thread-7153::ERROR::2016-10-25 08:32:48,787::vm::382::vm.Vm::(_startUnderlyingVm) vmId=`47b47673-6807-4b0b-8d16-a138ab5c5d1e`::The vm start process failed Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/vdsm/vm.py", line 348, in _startUnderlyingVm
self._run()
File "/usr/share/vdsm/libvirtvm.py", line 1101, in _run
self._connection.createXML(domxml, flags),
File "/usr/share/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line 63, in wrapper
ret = f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 2490, in createXML
if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: internal error cannot getpwuid_r(107): Success
Thread-7153::DEBUG::2016-10-25 08:32:48,789::vm::742::vm.Vm::(setDownStatus) vmId=`47b47673-6807-4b0b-8d16-a138ab5c5d1e`::Changed state to Down: internal error cannot getpwuid_r(107): Success
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5
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