Bug 526061 - virt-manager does not give any indication of dbus-session connection failure
Summary: virt-manager does not give any indication of dbus-session connection failure
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: virt-manager
Version: 5.4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Cole Robinson
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-09-28 15:36 UTC by Albert Hopkins
Modified: 2018-10-20 03:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-12-09 16:08:41 UTC

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Description Albert Hopkins 2009-09-28 15:36:23 UTC 
When starting virt-manager from a system that does not have a dbus session running (e.g. when opening a remote ssh connection to a headless server), virt-manager quits immediately. There is no indication to the user that virt-manager could not connect to the dbus session or that the "--no-dbus"   option should be supplied.  This confuses the user as a proper error message is not provided in order to correct the action.

Should there instead be a warning/error message indicating that virt-manager failed to connect to the session bus?
Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2009-09-28 15:43:42 UTC 
Can you post the command line output when virt-manager is run with --no-fork in this case?
Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2009-10-13 16:36:56 UTC 
ping, albert?
Comment 4 Cole Robinson 2009-10-14 19:10:23 UTC 
Hmm, I dont' see any dbus issues there. Both times you run those commands, no window pops up?

That second command will rightfully error: qemu:///localhost is not proper libvirt URI syntax. You would want to use qemu:///system most likely.
Comment 6 Cole Robinson 2009-12-09 16:08:41 UTC 
Thanks, closing as CURRENTRELEASE.
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