Bug 1244566

Summary:	Cannot create a new guest in virt-manager
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Xiaodai Wang <xiaodwan>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Pavel Hrdina <phrdina>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.2	CC:	juzhou, mzhan, ohudlick, qiguo, qxiao, tzheng
Target Milestone:	alpha	Keywords:	Regression, TestBlocker
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	virt-manager-1.2.1-4.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-11-19 05:31:45 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Xiaodai Wang 2015-07-20 02:47:10 UTC

Description of problem:
Cannot create a new guest in virt-manager

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-manager-1.2.1-3.el7.noarch

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch virt-manager.
2. Click the New button to create a new guest.

Actual result:
"Error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'guest'" pops up.

Expected result:
The create new guest window should pop up.

Additional information:

Comment 4 Pavel Hrdina 2015-07-20 07:20:49 UTC

Upstream patch proposed:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2015-July/msg00084.html

Comment 5 Pavel Hrdina 2015-07-22 09:57:21 UTC

Upstream commit:

commit cce1f89a345e3837dc79b9aac8af9bfb476b326f
Author: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina>
Date:   Mon Jul 20 09:19:57 2015 +0200

    virtManager/create: update capsinfo sooner in set_conn_state
    
    We need to update/initialize the capsinfo sooner in that function to be
    able to call has_install_options().
    
    Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244566
    
    Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina>

Comment 7 Pavel Hrdina 2015-07-27 10:47:08 UTC

*** Bug 1246973 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 XiaoQing 2015-07-29 06:31:36 UTC

I can reproduce the bug with the build:
virt-manager-1.2.1-3.el7.noarch

Try to verify this bug with package:
virt-manager-1.2.1-4.el7.noarch

steps:

1. Launch virt-manager
2. Click the New button to create a new guest.

Result:
New VM window pops up and create a new guest successfully.
move this bug from ON_QA to VERIFIED.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 05:31:45 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2206.html