Using a ssh forwarded connection from a F8 machine to a rawhide host, I try and run virt-viewer there. This worked with a F8 host, but on the now rawhide host I get: # virt-viewer -c qemu:///system 4 libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted) libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering Segmentation fault A gdb trace with virt-viewer debuginfo installed shows: (gdb) run -c qemu:///system 4 Starting program: /usr/bin/virt-viewer -c qemu:///system 4 [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0x7fa02b28c790 (LWP 20704)] libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted) libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7fa02b28c790 (LWP 20704)] 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install cairo.x86_64 cyrus-sasl.x86_64 expat.x86_64 fontconfig.x86_64 freetype.x86_64 gcc.x86_64 gtk2.x86_64 gtkglext.x86_64 libICE.x86_64 libSM.x86_64 libX11.x86_64 libXau.x86_64 libXcomposite.x86_64 libXcursor.x86_64 libXdamage.x86_64 libXdmcp.x86_64 libXext.x86_64 libXfixes.x86_64 libXi.x86_64 libXinerama.x86_64 libXmu.x86_64 libXrandr.x86_64 libXrender.x86_64 libXt.x86_64 libXxf86vm.x86_64 libdrm.x86_64 libgcrypt.x86_64 libgpg-error.x86_64 libpng.x86_64 libselinux.x86_64 libtasn1.x86_64 libxcb.x86_64 mesa.x86_64 pixman.x86_64 zlib.x86_64 (gdb) where #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #1 0x00007fa03074f9b2 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 #2 0x00007fa03072c9f5 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 #3 0x00007fa03072ce63 in glXCreateContext () from /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 #4 0x00007fa030c41e94 in _gdk_x11_gl_context_new () from /usr/lib64/libgdkglext-x11-1.0.so.0 #5 0x000000000206191e in gtk_widget_create_gl_context () from /usr/lib64/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0 #6 0x0000000002061a01 in gtk_widget_get_gl_context () from /usr/lib64/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0 #7 0x0000000000619e88 in realize_event (widget=0x260dbb0, data=<value optimized out>) at vncdisplay.c:706 #8 0x00000000015776dd in IA__g_closure_invoke (closure=0x26158d0, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0x7fff3981a850, invocation_hint=0x7fff3981a750) at gclosure.c:490 #9 0x000000000158b6c1 in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=0x26027a0, detail=0, instance=0x260dbb0, emission_return=0x0, instance_and_params=0x7fff3981a850) at gsignal.c:2440 #10 0x000000000158cb9c in IA__g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x260dbb0, signal_id=<value optimized out>, detail=0, var_args=0x7fff3981aab0) at gsignal.c:2199 #11 0x000000000158d0e3 in IA__g_signal_emit (instance=0x26159e0, signal_id=39940720, detail=0) at gsignal.c:2243 #12 0x0000000000d9824a in gtk_widget_realize () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #13 0x0000000000403dea in viewer_start (uri=<value optimized out>, name=0x262ba40 "", direct=0, waitvnc=<value optimized out>, set_verbose=<value optimized out>, get_toplevel=0x403420 <viewer_get_toplevel>, data=0x0, with_menubar=1) at main.c:843 #14 0x0000000000404668 in main (argc=4, argv=0x7fff3981aec8) at main.c:947 Happy to provide more info or try workarounds.
FYI, there is no need to run virt-viewer over an SSH forwarded X connection. It is capable of tunnelling the VNC protocol over SSH itself which is much more efficient. Assuming you have SSH keys + SSH agent setup you ought to be able to run it with a command line arg such as: virt-viewer --connect qemu+ssh://root@somehost/system 4 and it will automagically forward everything over SSH, which should let you work around this bug. Of course we still need to fix this SEGV crash too...
Indeed. That does seem to work... ;) Will start using that...
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
virt-viewer works (no SEGV, at least) fine through ssh in FC10. Kevin, could you confirm that this is fixed ?
Happily I can confirm that it does seem to be fixed here. ;) I guess this can be closed now?
Thank you Kevin. Will close ASAP.
Neither original reporter nor I can reproduce this nine month old bug. Closing.