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Bug 1238719

Summary: cannot start gnome boxes anymore
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Vladimir Benes <vbenes>
Component: gnome-boxesAssignee: Zeeshan Ali <zeenix>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.2CC: c.a.g.gibbs, cfergeau, extras-qa, jfrieben, marcandre.lureau, mclasen, vbenes, vehrlich, virt-maint, zeenix
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: TestBlocker
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Unspecified   
URL: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/1947860dfc2bc317ce63cb33b7e9763d42510f5d
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:ac235c11dead19c5868108fcd37429eb4d66fc71
Fixed In Version: gnome-boxes-3.14.3.1-3.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: 1131413 Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-11-19 08:55:42 UTC Type: ---
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On: 1131413    
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Description Vladimir Benes 2015-07-02 13:07:30 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1131413 +++

Version-Release number of selected component:
gnome-boxes-3.13.4-1.fc21

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.2.3
backtrace_rating: 4
cmdline:        gnome-boxes
crash_function: boxes_vm_creator_guest_installed_os
executable:     /usr/bin/gnome-boxes
kernel:         3.16.1-300.fc21.x86_64
runlevel:       N 5
type:           CCpp
uid:            1001

Truncated backtrace:
Thread no. 1 (9 frames)
 #0 boxes_vm_creator_guest_installed_os at /home/zeenix/checkout/gnome/gnome-boxes/src/vm-creator.vala:282
 #1 boxes_vm_creator_on_machine_state_changed at /home/zeenix/checkout/gnome/gnome-boxes/src/vm-creator.vala:147
 #2 boxes_vm_creator_real_continue_installation_co at /home/zeenix/checkout/gnome/gnome-boxes/src/vm-creator.vala:113
 #3 g_simple_async_result_complete at gsimpleasyncresult.c:763
 #4 complete_in_idle_cb at gsimpleasyncresult.c:775
 #8 g_main_context_iteration at gmain.c:3795
 #9 g_application_run at gapplication.c:2219
 #10 _vala_main at /home/zeenix/checkout/gnome/gnome-boxes/src/main.vala:84
 #12 _start

--- Additional comment from Joachim Frieben on 2014-08-19 04:42:36 EDT ---



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--- Additional comment from Joachim Frieben on 2014-08-19 04:42:41 EDT ---



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--- Additional comment from Joachim Frieben on 2014-08-19 04:42:52 EDT ---



--- Additional comment from Vladimir Benes on 2014-08-21 08:28:58 EDT ---

I've deleted ./config and ./local files and it happens like this too with this error

(gnome-boxes:9558): Boxes-WARNING **: libvirt-broker.vala:90: Failed to start storage pool: cannot open path '/home/vbenes/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images': No such file or directory

(gnome-boxes:9558): Libvirt.GObject-WARNING **: (libvirt-gobject-storage-pool.c:563):gvir_storage_pool_get_volume: code should not be reached

(gnome-boxes:9558): Libvirt.GObject-CRITICAL **: gvir_storage_vol_get_info: assertion 'GVIR_IS_STORAGE_VOL(vol)' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

--- Additional comment from Christophe Fergeau on 2014-08-25 06:56:07 EDT ---

You need to remove the gnome-boxes storage pool from libvirt as well
virsh -c qemu:///session pool-list --all
virsh -c qemu:///session pool-undefine gnome-boxes

(maybe I'm missing some steps, but you get the idea. Let me know if this is not enough and you get stuck)

--- Additional comment from Vladimir Benes on 2015-07-02 05:30:01 EDT ---

I've destroyed and undefined gnome-boxes pool but getting still the same error. Any more hints?

--- Additional comment from Vladimir Benes on 2015-07-02 05:33:38 EDT ---

and deleting ~/.config/libvirt helped!

Comment 1 Vladimir Benes 2015-07-02 13:07:53 UTC
gnome-boxes-3.14.3.1-1.el7.x86_64

Comment 6 Zeeshan Ali 2015-07-15 16:49:54 UTC
ok, so it seems to be caused by libvirt changing the behaviour of one of it's functions. :( Upstream bug is here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752417

and I have patches that I have tested on RHEL7.2 to work so I'll soon make a build with them.

Comment 9 Vaclav Ehrlich 2015-09-15 12:32:14 UTC
verified with gnome-boxes-3.14.3.1-5

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 08:55:42 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-2015-2253.html