Bug 669803

Summary: Virt manager does not launch without --no-fork
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Eric Paris <eparis>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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strace of virt-manager failing to start none

Description Eric Paris 2011-01-14 20:33:25 UTC
Created attachment 473582 [details]
strace of virt-manager failing to start

virt-manager-0.8.5-1.fc15.noarch
dbus-1.4.0-2.fc14.x86_64
libvirt-0.8.7-1.fc15.x86_64

This is F15 up2date as of 1/14/11.  If I launch virt-manager it will return to the command line and virt-manager will be running in the backgroup, but the gui never pops up and it never does anything.  The only messages it prints in the log are:

$ tail -f ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log
[Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:26:40 virt-manager 7555] INFO (virt-manager:161) Application startup
[Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:26:40 virt-manager 7555] DEBUG (virt-manager:300) Launched as: /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py

If I use --no-fork the log goes on like so:
$ tail -f ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log
[Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] INFO (virt-manager:161) Application startup
[Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] DEBUG (virt-manager:300) Launched as: /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py --debug
[Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] DEBUG (engine:348) About to connect to uris ['qemu+ssh://root.redhat.com/system', 'qemu:///system']
[Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] DEBUG (engine:643) window counter incremented to 1
[Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] DEBUG (connection:848) Scheduling background open thread for qemu:///system
[Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] DEBUG (connection:993) Background thread is running

I'll attach an strace I captured of the problem.  The last couple of line look like so:

10426 connect(22, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/tmp/dbus-5n4DrpUX"...}, 21) = 0
10426 geteuid()                         = 4166
10426 getegid()                         = 4166
10426 geteuid()                         = 4166
10426 getegid()                         = 4166
10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLOUT}])
10426 sendmsg(22, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\0", 1}], msg_controllen=32, {cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=10426, uid=4166, gid=4166}}, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 1
10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLOUT}])
10426 sendto(22, "AUTH\r\n", 6, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 6
10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLIN}])
10426 recvfrom(22, "REJECTED EXTERNAL ANONYMOUS DBUS"..., 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 46
10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLOUT}])
10426 sendto(22, "AUTH EXTERNAL 34313636\r\n", 24, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 24
10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLIN}])
10426 recvfrom(22, "OK 3aa614414c20db9c5350a21a4d309"..., 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 37
10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLOUT}])
10426 sendto(22, "NEGOTIATE_UNIX_FD\r\n", 19, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 19
10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLIN}])
10426 recvfrom(22, "AGREE_UNIX_FD\r\n", 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 15
10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLOUT}])
10426 sendto(22, "BEGIN\r\n", 7, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 7
10426 write(10, "A", 1)                 = 1
10426 sched_yield()                     = 0
10426 sched_yield()                     = 0
10426 sched_yield()                     = 0

and then sched_yield() go on and on and on and on and on

Comment 1 Eric Paris 2011-02-15 20:17:00 UTC
So this has changed a bit with updates to F15.  virt-manager now launches.  I can connect to a remote box over ssh.  But when I try to double click on a guest name it hangs.  I have to kill virt-manager.  If I use --no-fork I am able to open guests.....

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2011-03-28 20:13:11 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 677020 ***