RHEL 7 hypervisor libvirtd service fails to start with error: Initialization of netcf state driver failed: internal error: failed to initialize netcf

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Issue

  • The libvirtd service fails to start and reports an error about netcf:

    # systemctl status libvirtd.service
    ● libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
       Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2017-03-31 06:56:16 UTC; 1s ago
         Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
               http://libvirt.org
      Process: 22103 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/libvirtd $LIBVIRTD_ARGS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
     Main PID: 22103 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    
    Mar 31 06:56:16 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Virtualization daemon...
    Mar 31 06:56:16 localhost systemd[1]: Started Virtualization daemon.
    Mar 31 06:56:16 localhost libvirtd[22103]: libvirt version: 2.0.0, package: 10.el7_3.2 (Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>, 2016-11-10-04:...edhat.com)
    Mar 31 06:56:16 localhost libvirtd[22103]: hostname: localhost
    Mar 31 06:56:16 localhost libvirtd[22103]: internal error: failed to initialize netcf
    Mar 31 06:56:16 localhost libvirtd[22103]: Initialization of netcf state driver failed: internal error: failed to initialize netcf
    Mar 31 06:56:16 localhost libvirtd[22103]: Driver state initialization failed
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform

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