Created attachment 1115799 [details] Compile and Install and Error Log Type of error: Reproducible, show-stopper Follow up errors: No icons/text shown in "storage" Program Version: Github version from 18.01.2016 / 11:30 OS: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty Kernel: Linux MyOwn 4.3.0-040300rc6-lowlatency #201510182030 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 19 00:36:29 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Summary: Starting freshly build and installed virt-manager from /usr/local/bin/virt-manager and trying to create a new machine does not work, causes the above error message in a box. Attached: virt-manager.build.log (build and install tasks logged) virt-manager.log (output from ~/.cache/virt-manager/virt-manager.log) Workaround: Running the old version via /usr/bin/virt-manager Bugtracker specific: Needed to combine both logs, as your bugzilla doesnt support more than one attachment.
ok, i think i found the problem myself. for some reason, the git version of virt-manager doesnt install under /usr/local anymore, but instead overwrites stuff in /usr. so the version under /usr/bin indeed is the more current one, thats also why it might work. the version i had under /usr/local was 1.2.1, somewhere around that version, the behaviour of the make install changed. i dont know if thats a bug or a feature?
The build system was changed a bit in the last release, the default install directory is different. The reason is that things like gsettings schema don't work by default under /usr/local, so the user had to do some extra steps to make it work. Use python setup.py configure --prefix=/usr/local to maintain the old behavior