From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Description of problem: After patching my Fedora 8 system (patches were autoinstalled) - This morning I rebooted and tried to create a new qemu-kvm guest using virt-manager. Not able to complete shared physical device, and noted these errors. [Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:22:34 virt-manager 6797] INFO (virt-manager:126) Application startup [Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:22:35 virt-manager 6798] DEBUG (engine:74) About to connect to uris ['qemu:///system', 'xen:///'] [Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:22:35 virt-manager 6798] ERROR (connection:158) Unable to connect to HAL to list network devices: '%s'<class 'dbus.exceptions.DBusException'> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "(unset)" member "QueryCapability" error name "(unset)" destination ":1.4") Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 153, in detect_network_devices self._device_added(path) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 164, in _device_added if obj.QueryCapability("net"): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 63, in __call__ return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 135, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 603, in call_blocking message, timeout) DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "(unset)" member "QueryCapability" error name "(unset)" destination ":1.4") [Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:22:35 virt-manager 6798] ERROR (connection:158) Unable to connect to HAL to list network devices: '%s'<class 'dbus.exceptions.DBusException'> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "(unset)" member "QueryCapability" error name "(unset)" destination ":1.4") Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 153, in detect_network_devices self._device_added(path) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 164, in _device_added if obj.QueryCapability("net"): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 63, in __call__ return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 135, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 603, in call_blocking message, timeout) DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "(unset)" member "QueryCapability" error name "(unset)" destination ":1.4") Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.5.3-1.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to use the physical device drop down box. 2. 3. Actual Results: long line thru the drop down space. Expected Results: A listing of available shared devices. Additional info:
Created attachment 296406 [details] Shows line on the drop down
These were the the yum updates applied - I see that dbus got updated. Maybe a culprit? Feb 29 08:01:58 amdquad yum: Updated: coreutils - 6.9-13.fc8.x86_64 Feb 29 08:01:59 amdquad yum: Updated: xen-libs - 3.1.2-2.fc8.x86_64 Feb 29 08:02:02 amdquad yum: Updated: selinux-policy - 3.0.8-87.fc8.noarch Feb 29 08:02:03 amdquad yum: Updated: gmp - 4.2.2-4.fc8.x86_64 Feb 29 08:02:13 amdquad yum: Updated: selinux-policy-targeted - 3.0.8-87.fc8.noarch Feb 29 08:02:14 amdquad yum: Updated: libsilc - 1.0.2-5.fc8.x86_64 Feb 29 08:02:14 amdquad yum: Updated: kvm - 60-3.fc8.x86_64 Feb 29 08:02:16 amdquad yum: Updated: qemu - 0.9.0-7.fc8.x86_64 Feb 29 08:02:28 amdquad yum: Updated: selinux-policy-devel - 3.0.8-87.fc8.noarch Feb 29 08:02:30 amdquad yum: Updated: logwatch - 7.3.6-15.fc8.noarch Feb 29 08:02:30 amdquad yum: Updated: xen-libs - 3.1.2-2.fc8.i386 Feb 29 08:02:32 amdquad yum: Updated: xen - 3.1.2-2.fc8.x86_64 Feb 29 08:02:33 amdquad yum: Updated: xen-devel - 3.1.2-2.fc8.x86_64 Feb 29 08:02:33 amdquad yum: Updated: xen-devel - 3.1.2-2.fc8.i386 Feb 29 08:02:34 amdquad yum: Updated: dbus - 1.1.2-9.fc8.x86_64 Feb 29 08:02:34 amdquad yum: Updated: dbus-libs - 1.1.2-9.fc8.x86_64 Feb 29 08:02:37 amdquad yum: Updated: setroubleshoot-plugins - 2.0.4-3.fc8.noarch Feb 29 08:02:40 amdquad yum: Updated: setroubleshoot - 2.0.5-2.fc8.noarch Feb 29 08:02:40 amdquad yum: Updated: setroubleshoot-server - 2.0.5-2.fc8.noarch Feb 29 08:02:40 amdquad yum: Updated: dbus-x11 - 1.1.2-9.fc8.x86_64 Feb 29 08:02:41 amdquad yum: Updated: dbus-libs - 1.1.2-9.fc8.i386
It WAS the dbus packages.... Reverting the dbus packages to the original version on the Distro DVD restores functionality....
Or at least back to function as delivered.
*** Bug 437194 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 433654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
virt-manager-0.5.3-2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
virt-manager-0.5.3-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update virt-manager'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2604
virt-manager-0.5.3-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.