Bug 1450488

Summary:	spice-vdagent crash on boot
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Maël Lavault <mael.lavault>
Component:	spice-vdagent	Assignee:	Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	26	CC:	alon, cfergeau, mael.lavault, marcandre.lureau, sandmann, victortoso, virt-maint
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Description Maël Lavault 2017-05-12 18:17:36 UTC

Description of problem:

At boot time I get this error:

mai 12 18:57:31 mael-laptop spice-vdagent[2242]: Cannot access vdagent virtio channel /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0
mai 12 18:57:32 mael-laptop gnome-session[1914]: gnome-session-binary[1914]: WARNING: App 'spice-vdagent.desktop' exited with code 1
mai 12 18:57:32 mael-laptop gnome-session-binary[1914]: WARNING: App 'spice-vdagent.desktop' exited with code 1


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
spice-vdagent-0.17.0-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot

Comment 1 Victor Toso 2017-05-15 11:37:09 UTC

You got this error in a VM or a bare metal machine?
If you are in a bare metal, why are you running spice-vdagent?
If you are in a VM, do you have /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 ? How you created your VM?

Comment 2 Maël Lavault 2017-05-15 11:39:49 UTC

On a bare metal machine. I didn't do anything with spice-vdagent, I just have a standard fedora workstation install. I get this error on boot each time. If it's not useful (also I suspect it might be used by gnome-boxes) I shouldn't get this error right ?

Comment 3 Victor Toso 2017-05-15 11:48:29 UTC

(In reply to Maël Lavault from comment #2)
> On a bare metal machine. I didn't do anything with spice-vdagent, I just
> have a standard fedora workstation install. I get this error on boot each
> time. If it's not useful (also I suspect it might be used by gnome-boxes) I
> shouldn't get this error right ?

Right. spice-vdagent are design to run on VMs and the error you see is that it cannot find the virtio device for communication with host.

It should be safe to remove this package. It is weird that you have that by default.

Comment 4 Christophe Fergeau 2017-05-15 12:10:23 UTC

(In reply to Victor Toso from comment #3)
> It should be safe to remove this package. It is weird that you have that by
> default.

You want to have it on livecds, on os installs running in a VM, ... Not sure it's possible to exclude it from install on non-VMs, while covering all the cases when you want it to be installed by default.