Created attachment 473582 [details] strace of virt-manager failing to start virt-manager-0.8.5-1.fc15.noarch dbus-1.4.0-2.fc14.x86_64 libvirt-0.8.7-1.fc15.x86_64 This is F15 up2date as of 1/14/11. If I launch virt-manager it will return to the command line and virt-manager will be running in the backgroup, but the gui never pops up and it never does anything. The only messages it prints in the log are: $ tail -f ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log [Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:26:40 virt-manager 7555] INFO (virt-manager:161) Application startup [Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:26:40 virt-manager 7555] DEBUG (virt-manager:300) Launched as: /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py If I use --no-fork the log goes on like so: $ tail -f ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log [Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] INFO (virt-manager:161) Application startup [Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] DEBUG (virt-manager:300) Launched as: /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py --debug [Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] DEBUG (engine:348) About to connect to uris ['qemu+ssh://root.redhat.com/system', 'qemu:///system'] [Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] DEBUG (engine:643) window counter incremented to 1 [Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] DEBUG (connection:848) Scheduling background open thread for qemu:///system [Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:27:47 virt-manager 7741] DEBUG (connection:993) Background thread is running I'll attach an strace I captured of the problem. The last couple of line look like so: 10426 connect(22, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/tmp/dbus-5n4DrpUX"...}, 21) = 0 10426 geteuid() = 4166 10426 getegid() = 4166 10426 geteuid() = 4166 10426 getegid() = 4166 10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLOUT}]) 10426 sendmsg(22, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\0", 1}], msg_controllen=32, {cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=10426, uid=4166, gid=4166}}, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 1 10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLOUT}]) 10426 sendto(22, "AUTH\r\n", 6, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 6 10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLIN}]) 10426 recvfrom(22, "REJECTED EXTERNAL ANONYMOUS DBUS"..., 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 46 10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLOUT}]) 10426 sendto(22, "AUTH EXTERNAL 34313636\r\n", 24, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 24 10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLIN}]) 10426 recvfrom(22, "OK 3aa614414c20db9c5350a21a4d309"..., 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 37 10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLOUT}]) 10426 sendto(22, "NEGOTIATE_UNIX_FD\r\n", 19, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 19 10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLIN}]) 10426 recvfrom(22, "AGREE_UNIX_FD\r\n", 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 15 10426 poll([{fd=22, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=22, revents=POLLOUT}]) 10426 sendto(22, "BEGIN\r\n", 7, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 7 10426 write(10, "A", 1) = 1 10426 sched_yield() = 0 10426 sched_yield() = 0 10426 sched_yield() = 0 and then sched_yield() go on and on and on and on and on
So this has changed a bit with updates to F15. virt-manager now launches. I can connect to a remote box over ssh. But when I try to double click on a guest name it hangs. I have to kill virt-manager. If I use --no-fork I am able to open guests.....
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 677020 ***