Bug#1031838: qemu-guest-agent: /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0 symlink not created due to missing comma in udev rule

[Christian Schneider]

Package: qemu-guest-agent
Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Hi, while setting up a fresh Debian VM in a Proxmox cluster, service qemu-
guest-agent isn't starting. In the journal the following messages are
recorded:

systemd[1]: qemu-guest-agent.service: Job qemu-guest-agent.service/start
failed with result 'dependency'.
systemd[1]: dev-virtio\x2dports-org.qemu.guest_agent.0.device: Job dev-
virtio\x2dports-org.qemu.guest_agent.0.device/start failed with result
'timeout'.

It's waiting for a symlink /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0 to show
up, but there is not even the /dev/virtio-ports directory.
On the other hand the link target /dev/vport1p1 was created properly.

Long story short: I think there is just a comma missing between
'TAG+="systemd"' and 'ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}="qemu-guest-agent.service"' in
/lib/udev/rules.d/60-qemu-guest-agent.rules.

Might this report be useful...

Best regards, Christian


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de:en_US:en_GB
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages qemu-guest-agent depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.60
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u5
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1
ii libudev1 247.3-7+deb11u1
ii liburing1 0.7-3
ii lsb-base 11.1.0

qemu-guest-agent recommends no packages.