Description of problem: I have huge problem with virt-manager as it displays errors below [1]. Problem happened after I upgraded in quick succession from F10 to F11 and then to F12. If I do yum update, it says "No Packages marked for Update" - so I'm pretty sure my system is up-to-date F12. My libvirt is running: root 8030 1 0 10:34 ? 00:00:00 libvirtd --daemon However my polkit agent is not running [2]. (not sure if it is a must) Is there any other way how can I get inside my running virtual machine (ssh does not work)? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Package python-virtinst-0.500.1-2.fc12.noarch already installed and latest version Package 2:qemu-kvm-0.11.0-13.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package virt-manager-0.8.2-3.fc12.noarch already installed and latest version Package virt-viewer-0.2.0-1.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package libvirt-0.7.1-15.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest version How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start virt-manager, try to connect to qemu:///system 2. 3. Actual results: Displayed below in [1] Expected results: I shoutl see my virtual machines. Additional info: My virtual machines are working, I can get them start with virsh but not with virt-manager. [1] Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'qemu:///system': authentication failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 872, 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: authentication failed Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 404, in <module> main() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 335, in main icon_dir, data_dir) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/config.py", line 89, in __init__ gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE) GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.) [2] # /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 & /[1/] 22686 # (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:22686): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Unable to determine the session we are in: Remote Exception invoking org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GetSessionForUnixProcess() on /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager at name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError: Unable to lookup session information for process '22686' org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError Unable%20to%20lookup%20session%20information%20for%20process%20%2722686%27
*** Bug 589062 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
All those errors make me think something is messed up in your environment, probably some side effect of updating from F10 to F12. Not really sure how to debug though. Reassigning to PolicyKit, maybe the devs have a better idea.
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