Ubuntu
libvirt package

  1. Bug #510658
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 510658

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IAN DELANEY (johneed) wrote :

Would like to add, realise I'm a regular user, not technical advocate like Arnd and Dustin Kirkland.

On my system,

idella@karmic:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin restart
 * Restarting libvirt management daemon /usr/sbin/libvirtd [fail]
idella@karmic:~$ sudo libvirtd
15:42:25.008: error : qemudWritePidFile:457 : Failed to open pid file '/var/run/libvirtd.pid' : File exists
della@karmic:~$ ls /var/run/
                ....................
lktapctrl.pid libvirtd.pid udev-configure-printer
           ...........................
idella@karmic:~$ sudo rm /var/run/libvirtd.pid
idella@karmic:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin restart
 * Restarting libvirt management daemon /usr/sbin/libvirtd [ OK ]

On previous searching, I found this in place in another distro, ?? arch linux. So not new for ubuntu.