Public bug reported: While attempting to use "virsh" commands this error occurs:
Oct 27 08:52:22 boron libvirtd: 08:52:23.000: 25851: error : qemuDomainObjBeginJobWithDriver:453 : Timed out during operation: cannot acquire state change lock While the error state is present certain commands like "virsh shutdown" and "virsh destroy" elicit that error message and fail to work completely I found that if I kill the kvm guest processes $ kill -9 $(ps ax | grep '/usr/bin/kvm.*guestname' | awk '{print $1}') Then "virsh start guestname" would work. I'm not certain that the number of VM guests is the issue, however, this happens more frequently to me on systems with larger numbers of guests. We have one with 14 guests and another with 53. There seems to be a corresponding Red Hat bug at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676205 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: libvirt-bin 0.8.8-1ubuntu6.5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-12.51-generic 2.6.38.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-12-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Oct 27 09:41:23 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: libvirt UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-26 (153 days ago) ** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to libvirt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882579 Title: Some Commands return: "Timed out during operation: cannot acquire state change lock" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/882579/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs