By 'one timer', do you mean it has only happened one time? A that level it could just as well be a bug in the guest kernel, or guest upstart, or some upstart job which never finished on shutdown.
I currently have a job running where an upstart job in guest does "some stuff" then shutdown -h, while the host constantly re-starts the guest. It has not failed to shutdown yet. If you are at liberty to play with that host and guest, could you add an upstart job to the guest which starts on runlevel [2345] and does shutdown -h now, and then on the host start the guest (through virsh start) in a loop, waiting for it to shutdown, and print a message if the guest has not shtu down after a 5 minute timeout? If you are at liberty to do so, I can write up the scripts to use if you like. If you're not at liberty to do that, then when my hardware frees up i can do such a run in a loop myself. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/981658 Title: ubuntu12.04 guest kernel 3.2.14 ubuntu flavour is not able to shotdown succesfully To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/981658/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs