Hostagent Fails to Install Packages During Host Upgrade

Problem

During a host upgrade, the pf9-hostagent service fails to install its updated package, throwing the following error in /var/log/pf9/hostagent.log.

For other packages, it throws the following error.

An attempt to manually install the package fails with the following error.

    
$ sudo /opt/pf9/hostagent/bin/pf9-apt install /var/cache/pf9apps/pf9-hostagent/3.9.0-2453.2b93f79/pf9-hostagent-3.9.0-2453.2b93f79.x86_64.deb    Setting up libvirt-bin (1.3.1-1ubuntu10.25) ...    Job for libvirt-bin.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status libvirt-bin.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.    invoke-rc.d: initscript libvirt-bin, action "restart" failed.    ● libvirt-bin.service - Virtualization daemon       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/libvirt-bin.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)       Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2019-03-18 20:50:40 PDT; 8ms ago         Docs: man:libvirtd(8)               http://libvirt.org      Process: 161154 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/libvirtd $libvirtd_opts (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)     Main PID: 161154 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)        Tasks: 633       Memory: 5.3G          CPU: 371ms       CGroup: /system.slice/libvirt-bin.service               ├─  3457 /usr/sbin/libvirtd -d -l               ├─ 13235 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf --leasefile-ro --dhcp-script=/usr/lib/libvirt/libvirt_leaseshelper               ├─ 13236 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf --leasefile-ro --dhcp-script=/usr/lib/libvirt/libvirt_leaseshelper    host systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualization daemon.    host systemd[1]: libvirt-bin.service: Unit entered failed state.    host systemd[1]: libvirt-bin.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.    dpkg: error processing package libvirt-bin (--configure):    subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1    Errors were encountered while processing:     libvirt-bin    E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)    Failed to install package: /var/cache/pf9apps/pf9-hostagent/3.9.0-2453.2b93f79/pf9-hostagent-3.9.0-2453.2b93f79.x86_64.debTraceback (most recent call last):      File "/opt/pf9/hostagent/bin/pf9-apt", line 90, in        _install_package(package, cache)      File "/opt/pf9/hostagent/bin/pf9-apt", line 68, in _install_package        cache.commit()      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 552, in commit        raise SystemError("installArchives() failed")    SystemError: installArchives() failed    Traceback (most recent call last):      File "/opt/pf9/hostagent/bin/pf9-apt", line 90, in        _install_package(package, cache)      File "/opt/pf9/hostagent/bin/pf9-apt", line 68, in _install_package        cache.commit()      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 552, in commit        raise SystemError("installArchives() failed")    SystemError: installArchives() failed
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Environment

Platform9 Managed OpenStack - v3.3.0 and Higher
Ubuntu 16.04

Cause

Even though the libvirt-bin package is installed, it is half-configured, as shown below.

The package post-install script to start the libvirt-bin service fails.
Systemd reports a failure because the '-d' (daemon) flag was passed to the binary. This isn't compatible with systemd as it forces the libvirtd process to fork, thus reporting the service as failed, even when the forked process is running in the background.
The drawback is that the forked process cannot be managed with systemd, and must be killed manually.

Resolution

Remove '-d' option from the parameter libvirtd_opts in /etc/default/libvirt-bin.

Kill the libvirtd daemon with the following command.

Fix the half configured libvirt-bin package.

Restart the libvirt-bin service.

Contact Platform9 Support to re-run the host upgrades.

Additional Information

[Ubuntu] #1567272 - systemd claims libvirt-bin is dead on xenial
Libvirt Change Log:

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