Bug 619698
| Summary: | virt-manager traceback when no screen found | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Miroslav Vadkerti <mvadkert> |
| Component: | virt-manager | Assignee: | Cole Robinson <crobinso> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | xen-maint |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-08-02 16:09:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Seems like a reasonable error to me, pretty much all other gtk apps will fail in the same way. You need to use ssh -X if you want X forwarding. Closing as NOTABUG. |
Description of problem: # virt-manager ERROR:root:could not open display Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 413, in <module> main() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 285, in main import gtk File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 420, in <module> _show_startup_error(str(run_e), "".join(traceback.format_exc())) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 61, in _show_startup_error import gtk File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.8.4-7.el6 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. ssh host 2. virt-manager Actual results: Traceback Expected results: Error, no traceback Additional info: