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Bug 211229

Summary: virtmanager has less useful diagnostics than ed
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2006-10-17 23:16:08 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #209122 +++

Description of problem:
If the virt manager can't do something it silently exits.

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot non xen kernel
2. Try and talk to local xen
3. Admire vanishing app with not even a "?" for an error box

Expected results:

A dialog box containing some explanation of why the app vanished.

-- Additional comment from berrange on 2006-10-03 10:56 EST --
Fix now upstream:

http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel?cs=e81393d95b2e

Patch to be included in next RPM re-build.


-- Additional comment from berrange on 2006-10-06 06:47 EST --
*** Bug 209577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

-- Additional comment from dmalcolm on 2006-10-12 15:57 EST --
Still seeing this with virt-manager-0.2.3-2.fc6
(though Build Date: Fri 29 Sep 2006 04:00:42 PM EDT suggests that the fix hasn't
hit rawhide yet)
Comment 1 Brian Stein 2006-10-19 19:25:11 UTC 
Ready for inclusion in Beta 2 for add'l testing.
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2006-10-19 19:32:33 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has requested further review
of this request by Red Hat Engineering.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion in release.
Comment 4 Daniel Berrangé 2006-10-23 13:37:51 UTC 
The fix for this issue has been built into virt-manager-0.2.5-1.el5