the attached script will reproduce this on utopic. I did it on a virtual machine running under kvm, but it will also do it bare-metal.
#!/bin/bash apt-get -qy install virtinst libvirt-bin die() { echo "$*" exit 1 } dir=$(mktemp -d "/tmp/repro.XXXXXX") echo "rep files in $dir" cd "$dir" chgrp libvirtd . chmod 775 . [ -f cirros-0.3.3-x86_64-disk.img ] || wget http://download.cirros- cloud.net/0.3.3/cirros-0.3.3-x86_64-disk.img || die "Error fetching cirros image" ninstances=10 for i in $(seq 0 $ninstances) do cp -f cirros-0.3.3-x86_64-disk.img cirros-$i.qcow2 chgrp libvirtd cirros-$i.qcow2 chmod 775 cirros-$i.qcow2 done for i in $(seq 0 $ninstances) do virt-install -n instance-$i -r 256 --cpu host --description "instance-$i" --import --disk cirros-$i.qcow2 --os-type=linux --noautoconsole done service libvirt-bin restart echo "This command should return instantly with $ninstances in the list" virsh list -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1397130 Title: libvirt-bin crashes / refuses to restart if cgmanager is restarted To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1397130/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs