From f5fca94677487108ad0012447f58fb229dbde63a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dario Maiocchi Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 12:26:30 +0100 Subject: DOC: improve readme, separating troubleshooting. Added also the lists of authors, and adding a troubleshooting. Libvirt-devel is required --- doc/TROUBLESHOOTING.md | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/TROUBLESHOOTING.md (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/TROUBLESHOOTING.md b/doc/TROUBLESHOOTING.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b16b3431 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/TROUBLESHOOTING.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +# Troubleshooting + +## You cannot build from source + +You run + +```console +glide install +go build +``` +And you get: + +```console +Package libvirt was not found in the pkg-config search path. +Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libvirt.pc' +to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable +No package 'libvirt' found +pkg-config: exit status 1 +``` + +You probably need libvirt-dev(el) package installed. + +```console +apt install libvirt-dev +``` + +## Bug in libvirt + +* There is a [bug in libvirt](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293804) that seems to be causing + problems to unlink volumes. Tracked [here](https://github.com/dmacvicar/terraform-provider-libvirt/issues/6). + + If you see something like: + + ```console + cannot unlink file '/var/lib/libvirt/images/XXXXXXXXXXXX': Permission denied + ``` + It is probably related and fixed in libvirt 1.3.3 (already available in openSUSE Tumbleweed). + +## Selinux on Debian distros + +* On Debian distros SELinux is enforced by qemu even if it is disabled globally, this might cause unexpected `Could not open '/var/lib/libvirt/images/': Permission denied` errors. Double check that `security_driver = "none"` is uncommented in `/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf` and issue `sudo systemctl restart libvirt-bin` to restart the daemon. + + -- cgit v1.2.3