I have this same problem after upgrade: root@office:/home/coldiso# systemctl status libvirt-bin.service ● libvirt-bin.service - Virtualization daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/libvirt-bin.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2016-09-21 11:42:20 EDT; 5s ago Docs: man:libvirtd(8) http://libvirt.org Process: 2632 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/libvirtd $libvirtd_opts (code=exited, status=6) Main PID: 2632 (code=exited, status=6) Sep 21 11:42:20 office systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualization daemon. Sep 21 11:42:20 office systemd[1]: libvirt-bin.service: Unit entered failed state. Sep 21 11:42:20 office systemd[1]: libvirt-bin.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Sep 21 11:42:20 office systemd[1]: libvirt-bin.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Sep 21 11:42:20 office systemd[1]: Stopped Virtualization daemon. Sep 21 11:42:20 office systemd[1]: libvirt-bin.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Sep 21 11:42:20 office systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualization daemon. Tried removing: root@office:/home/coldiso# sudo apt-get remove libvirt-bin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libvirt-bin 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 10.9 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 442474 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libvirt-bin (1.3.1-1ubuntu10.2) ... Warning: Stopping virtlockd.service, but it can still be activated by: virtlockd.socket Warning: Stopping virtlogd.service, but it can still be activated by: virtlogd.socket Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Tried re-installing: root@office:/home/coldiso# sudo apt-get install libvirt-bin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: radvd The following NEW packages will be installed: libvirt-bin 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/2,413 kB of archives. After this operation, 10.9 MB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package libvirt-bin. (Reading database ... 442363 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libvirt-bin_1.3.1-1ubuntu10.2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libvirt-bin (1.3.1-1ubuntu10.2) ... Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu8) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up libvirt-bin (1.3.1-1ubuntu10.2) ... 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. 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) Anyone have some clues to further troubleshoot. I have fresh install 16.04 that don't have issues with libvirtd so likely something from the transition. Thoughts?