qemu-guest-agent install problem 13.10 64b server

Asked by Ondra Machacek

Hi,

I've installed ubuntu 13.10 64b server.
I have nothing checked in selection stage list and i had installed both
linux-image and linux-image-extra. Installation get stuck on postinst script of
qemu-guest-agent.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zhshzhou/vdsm-ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get update

$ aptitude install ovirt-guest-agent
  ...
  Remove stale byte-compiled files...
  Setting up python-ethtool (0.7-1.1) ...
  Setting up qemu-guest-agent (1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5.3) ...
  ^^^ here it get stuck

$ ps aux | grep dpkg
root 2703 0.1 0.2 18608 2960 pts/1 Ss+ 14:46 0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 111 --configure fonts-dejavu-core:all ttf-dejavu-core:all fontconfig-config:all libatk1.0-data:all libatk1.0-0:amd64 libavahi-common-data:amd64 libavahi-common3:amd64 libavahi-client3:amd64 libfontconfig1:amd64 libpixman-1-0:amd64 libxcb-render0:amd64 libxcb-shm0:amd64 libxrender1:amd64 libcairo2:amd64 libcups2:amd64 libdatrie1:amd64 libjpeg-turbo8:amd64 libjpeg8:amd64 libjasper1:amd64 libjbig0:amd64 libtiff5:amd64 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common:all libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:amd64 libgraphite2-3:amd64 libgtk2.0-common:all libthai-data:all libthai0:amd64 fontconfig:amd64 libpango-1.0-0:amd64 libharfbuzz0a:amd64 libpangoft2-1.0-0:amd64 libpangocairo-1.0-0:amd64 libxcomposite1:amd64 libxfixes3:amd64 libxcursor1:amd64 libxdamage1:amd64 libxi6:amd64 libxinerama1:amd64 libxrandr2:amd64 libgtk2.0-0:amd64 libnl1:amd64 python-gi:amd64 hicolor-icon-theme:all libgtk2.0-bin:amd64 libuser1:amd64 python-dbus-dev:all python-dbus:amd64 python-ethtool:amd64 qemu-guest-agent:amd64 usermode:amd64 ovirt-guest-agent:all
root 2877 0.0 0.0 4440 628 pts/1 S+ 14:47 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/qemu-guest-agent.postinst configure

$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/qemu-guest-agent.postinst
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installinit
if [ -x "/etc/init.d/qemu-guest-agent" ] || [ -e "/etc/init/qemu-guest-agent.conf" ]; then
 if [ ! -e "/etc/init/qemu-guest-agent.conf" ]; then
  update-rc.d qemu-guest-agent defaults >/dev/null
 fi
 invoke-rc.d qemu-guest-agent start || exit $?
fi
# End automatically added section

$ killall dpkg

$ rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

$ rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

$ dpkg --configure -a
 Setting up usermode (1.109-1) ...
 Setting up qemu-guest-agent (1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5.3) ...
 1394471380.535568: critical: error opening channel: Device or resource busy
 1394471380.535698: critical: error opening channel
 1394471380.535774: critical: failed to create guest agent channel
 1394471380.535847: critical: failed to initialize guest agent channel
 Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
 Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
 Setting up ovirt-guest-agent (1.0.9.20140216.git5168c4-1ppa1) ...
 ovirt-guest-agent start/running, process 3169
 Processing triggers for ureadahead ...

$ service ovirt-guest-agent status
ovirt-guest-agent start/running, process 3169

Seems as issue in post install script of guest agent... can you please tak a look?

Thanks, for any reply.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Have you contacted the PPA maintainer?
Have you considered using the version from the official Ubuntu repos?

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