Description of problem: virt-manager fails to connect to libvirt. I'm logged in at the console on a fresh rawhide install, and libvirtd is running. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-0.7.0-3.fc12.x86_64 virt-manager-0.8.0-1.fc12.noarch How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start virt-manager. Actual results: 'Connection Failure' dailog: Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon. Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system Verify that: - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'qemu:///system': Failed to collect auth credentials Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 456, in _try_open None], flags) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') libvirtError: Failed to collect auth credentials Worked fine in Fedora 11.
strace reveals this to have the same cause as bug #515906: [pid 4303] read(19, "l\3\1\1^\0\0\0\7\0\0\0u\0\0\0\6\1s\0\6\0\0\0:1.193\0\0\4\1 s\0)\0\0\0org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\5\1u\0\5\0\0\0 \10\1g\0\1s\0\0\7\1s\0\24\0\0\0org.freedesktop.DBus\0\0\0\0Y\0\0\0Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.AuthenticationAgent': no such name\0".. ., 2048) = 230
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 499970 ***