Description of problem: Unable to select network device during virt-manager creation Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dbus 1.0.0-6.3.el5_1 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: - Run virt-manager - Create a new virtual machine - At the "Connect to Host" step, select "Shard physical device" => The list is empty Actual results: ERROR Unable to connect to HAL to list network devices: '%s'dbus_bindings.DBusException 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)" membe r "QueryCapability" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal") Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 104, in detect_network_devices self._device_added(path) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 115, in _device_added if obj.QueryCapability("net"): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 25, in __call__ ret = self._proxy_method (*args, **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 102, in __call__ reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, timeout) File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 455, in dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block DBusException: 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 "org.freedesktop.Hal") ERROR Unable to connect to HAL to list cdrom volumes: '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 "GetPropertyBoolean" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")' Expected results: Allow to choose device Additional info: Seems to be a result of 2008-02-25 22:00:00 David Zeuthen <davidz> - 1.0.0-6.3.el5_1: - CVE-2008-0595: D-Bus security policy circumvention - Resolves: #432437 But I have no access to that BZ.
This bugzilla has Keywords: Regression. Since no regressions are allowed between releases, it is also being proposed as a blocker for this release. Please resolve ASAP.
Talked to Dan offline and decided this needs to be fixed in virt-manager / libvirt... Dan?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 436276 ***