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Description of problem: ---------------------- virt-manager complains about libvirt not being there although: 1) libvirt 2.2.0 is installed & working fine libvirtd --version libvirtd (libvirt) 2.2.0 systemctl status libvirt-bin ● libvirt-bin.service - Virtualization daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/libvirt-bin.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2016-09-03 23:25:47 CEST; 10min ago Docs: man:libvirtd(8) http://libvirt.org Main PID: 9944 (libvirtd) Tasks: 32 Memory: 36.6M CPU: 5.601s CGroup: /system.slice/libvirt-bin.service ├─6351 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/virtual-router.conf --leasefile-ro --dhcp-script=/usr/libexec/libvirt_leaseshelper ... └─9944 /usr/sbin/libvirtd 2) python-libvirt 2.2.0 is installed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ------------------------------------------------------------ Same behavior with both commits: - virt-manager 1.4.0 - virt-manager c859d3942865007781c2974e7ed1407d6cb27ce3 How reproducible: ---------------- Compile from git sources: - libvirt 2.2.0 - python-libvirt 2.2.0 - virt-manager 1.4.0 or c859d3942865007781c2974e7ed1407d6cb27ce3 - launch virt-manager Actual results: -------------- virt-manager Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager", line 33, in <module> from virtinst import util as util File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/__init__.py", line 39, in <module> from . import util File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/util.py", line 27, in <module> import libvirt ImportError: No module named libvirt Additional info: --------------- Ubuntu 16.04 4.4.0-36
No such issue with: ------------------ - libvirt v2.2.0-rc1 - python-libvirt v2.1.0 - virt-manager v1.4.0 or c859d3942865007781c2974e7ed1407d6cb27ce3
What does this report: python -c 'import libvirt' Can you check the install output of libvirt-python 2.2.0 vs 2.1.0 and see if anything is missing?
python -c 'import libvirt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named libvirt although the following packages are installed: - libvirt 2.2.0 - libvirt-python 2.2.0 Nothing special about their installation.
There is no error message with "python -c 'import libvirt'" with: - libvirt commit 67af358 on 08/26 - libvirt-python 2.1.0
The issue is still there with: - libvirt 2.3.0 - libvirt-python 2.3.0 - virt-manager latest commit 561f5cd3e68fa3f1fb6745463a5c1a486171d8c9 2016-09-08
It seems that building and installing virt-manager & libvirt-python with --prefix=/usr have some weird and obscure side-effects. Removing "--prefix=/usr" hides the issue of this thread, but at least virt-manager 1.4.0 is functional again with libvirt & libvirt-python 2.3.0.
Although testing virt-manager (when built without --prefix) shows an error which does not appear during execution: -------- Testing -------- python setup.py test running test Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 679, in <module> distclass=VMMDistribution, File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "setup.py", line 520, in run TestBaseCommand.run(self) File "setup.py", line 447, in run tests = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromNames(self._testfiles) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 130, in loadTestsFromNames suites = [self.loadTestsFromName(name, module) for name in names] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 91, in loadTestsFromName module = __import__('.'.join(parts_copy)) File "/home/actionmystique/Program-Files/Ubuntu/Virt-manager/git-virt-manager/tests/capabilities.py", line 28, in <module> conn = utils.open_testdriver() File "/home/actionmystique/Program-Files/Ubuntu/Virt-manager/git-virt-manager/tests/utils.py", line 130, in open_testdriver return openconn(uri_test) File "/home/actionmystique/Program-Files/Ubuntu/Virt-manager/git-virt-manager/tests/utils.py", line 85, in openconn conn = virtinst.cli.getConnection(uri) File "/home/actionmystique/Program-Files/Ubuntu/Virt-manager/git-virt-manager/virtinst/cli.py", line 270, in getConnection conn.open(_do_creds_authname) File "/home/actionmystique/Program-Files/Ubuntu/Virt-manager/git-virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py", line 148, in open open_flags) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 105, in openAuth if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') libvirt.libvirtError: unsupported configuration: cannot add redirected USB device: USB is disabled for this domain
Given this is old I assume it was figured out