Bug 467886 - virt-manager depends on dbus-x11
Summary: virt-manager depends on dbus-x11
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: virt-manager
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Daniel Berrangé
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F10Preview
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-21 14:35 UTC by Chris Snook
Modified: 2013-01-10 04:51 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-10-27 22:28:59 UTC
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Description Chris Snook 2008-10-21 14:35:53 UTC
Description of problem:
If dbus-x11 is not installed, virt-manager will throw up a cryptic error suggesting that TCP/IP networking is disabled, and direct the user to gconf documentation, which doesn't make it obvious that dbus-x11 needs to be installed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-manager-0.6.0-2.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a minimal F10-Snap2 system, with virt-manager but no X or Gnome
2. ssh -X root@system from a system running X
3. Attempt to run virt-manager
  
Actual results:
A GUI window pops up with a hilariously wrong error message and suggests that the user consult documentation that is unrelated to the real problem.

Expected results:
virt-manager pulls in dbus-x11 automatically as a dependency

Additional info:
Fix is trivial, but the bug is rather baffling to the non-expert, particularly due to the error message.

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2008-10-23 19:34:20 UTC
Thanks, fixed upstream:

http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel?cs=b9a48b071acb

I'll pull this in for rawhide.

Comment 2 Jesse Keating 2008-10-27 22:28:59 UTC
Verified the build done in koji.


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