Description of problem: [root@localhost ~]# virt-manager Segmentation fault Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager.i386 0.5.0-1.fc8 installed Matched from: virt-manager http://virt-manager.org/ kernel-xen.i686 2.6.21-2933.fc8 installed Matched from: kernel-xen xen.i386 3.1.0-5.fc8 installed Matched from: This package contains the Xen hypervisor and Xen tools, needed to run virtual machines on x86 systems, together with the kernel-xen* packages. Information on how to use Xen can be found at the Xen project pages. How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. login as root 2. run "virt-manager" Actual results: Segmentation fault Expected results: virt-manager should start up Additional info: Other virt-*-tools show the same problem. "virt-clone", "virt-image" Just the end of "strace virt-manager": open("/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirtmod.so", O_RDONLY) = 10 read(10, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0@,\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=37340, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 40116, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0) = 0xc43000 mmap2(0xc4c000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0x8) = 0xc4c000 close(10) = 0 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 10 fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=80806, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 80806, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 10, 0) = 0xb7ba0000 close(10) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libvirt.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 10 read(10, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0PP\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=354156, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 361520, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0) = 0xca5000 mmap2(0xcfb000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0x55) = 0xcfb000 mmap2(0xcfd000, 1072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xcfd000 close(10) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libgnutls.so.13", O_RDONLY) = 10 read(10, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0p\27\1\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=507700, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 510628, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0) = 0x6983000 mmap2(0x69fa000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0x76) = 0x69fa000 close(10) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libxenstore.so.3.0", O_RDONLY) = 10 read(10, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320\21\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=15464, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 30592, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0) = 0x7d5000 mmap2(0x7d9000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0x3) = 0x7d9000 mmap2(0x7da000, 10112, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7da000 close(10) = 0 open("/lib/libgcrypt.so.11", O_RDONLY) = 10 read(10, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0@>\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=346204, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 345576, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0) = 0xeca000 mmap2(0xf1d000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0x53) = 0xf1d000 close(10) = 0 open("/lib/libgpg-error.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 10 read(10, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\5\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=11844, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 14648, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0) = 0x665000 mmap2(0x668000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0x2) = 0x668000 close(10) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Please install the -debuginfo RPMs for: virt-manager, libvirt, xen, python, pygtk2, gtk2, glib2 and glibc And then set 'ulimit -c unlimited', run virt-manager, and then obtain a stack trace from GDB: $ gdb /usr/bin/python core.XXXX (gdb) bt .... Where core.XXXX is the corefile generated.
Turned out to be a GTK-VNC bug - fixed in rawhide. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 307531 ***