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