Description of problem: When opening a VM in virt-manager I get an error instead of a virt viewer window. Error launching details: libosinfo: at line 1: Document is empty (0) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 369, in get_instance cls._instances[key] = vmmDetails(vm) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 471, in __init__ self.init_details() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 945, in init_details self._os_list = vmmOSList() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/oslist.py", line 39, in __init__ self._init_state() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/oslist.py", line 55, in _init_state all_os = virtinst.OSDB.list_os() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/osdict.py", line 225, in list_os for name, osobj in self._all_variants.items(): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/osdict.py", line 173, in _all_variants loader = self._os_loader File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/osdict.py", line 165, in _os_loader loader.process_default_path() GLib.GError: libosinfo: at line 1: Document is empty (0) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libosinfo-1.1.0-2.fc28.ppc64le libvirt-daemon-4.9.0-1.fc28.ppc64le osinfo-db-20181101-1.fc28.noarch virt-manager-2.0.0-1.fc28.noarch virt-viewer-6.0-4.fc28.ppc64le How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to open a VM Additional info: This is on F-28 ppc64le with the virt-preview repo enabled. It worked fine until a week ago or so.
And it seems osinfo-db-20181116-1.fc28 fixes the problem.